Book Chapter
| 1990
Industrialization in Kenya: Quasi-Proletarianization and Labour Migration
in Meine Peter van Dijk & Henrik Secher Marcussen (eds.): Industrialization in the Third World: The Need for Alternative Strategies. London: Frank Cass pp. 105-122
This chapter adduces empirical evidence to show that the non-capitalist agricultural sector 'subsidises' industrial wages by relieving the capitalist manufacturing sector of a substantial part of the labourers' reproduction costs. This is made possible through the articulation of the two sectors by way of oscillatory labour migration: the male heads of household migrates to the city while his family largely fends for itself on the small farm.
