An empirical study of ethnic linkages in Kenyan rural-urban migration

<p>The supply of urban labor has been a central concern of the development efforts of low-income nations. Earlier development theories emphasized the benefits of removing labor from peasant agriculture—where labor-intensive techniques and traditional economic organization kept productivity low—and relocating it in an industrial setting, where capital could raise its productivity. Reflecting this perspective, observers of the pre-Independence African experience concentrated primarily on the issue of stabilizing an urban labor force. A common argument was that productivity in nonagricultural industries was hindered by a labor force that circulated frequently between village and towns because this mobility was inconsistent with the adoption of attitudes and industrial discipline required by these industries.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Year

1974

Author dc:creator

• Huntington, Hillard Griswold

Contributors dc:contributor

• Alphonse G. Holtmann
• Clifford Kern
• Lorene Yap

• Rural-urban migration
• Kenya
• Ethnic groups
• Migration
• Kenyan

Repository record dc:identifier

https://orb.binghamton.edu/dissertation_and_theses/265

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:orb.binghamton.edu:dissertation_and_theses-1271