A Profile of the Kenyan Labor Force: Race, Occupation and Industry; Ethnicity and Sex Differentials in the Postcolonial Period

The motivation for this study is the ongoing debate on the impact of economic dependency on the occupational distribution of different racial groups in the Kenyan economy. The debate has yielded two conflicting generalizations. The first argues that despite the dominance of foreign private capital in the Kenyan economy, Africans already hold a large proportion of middle and high-level jobs in the country. The second states that Europeans still hold most of the high-level jobs, and Asians most of the middle-level ones. The study reexamines the two generalizations using data which focus on a unit of analysis--industry--which is more detailed than the usual public-private sector duality.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Yambo, Mauri Onyalo

• Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8026623

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/67903