Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
1974
Keywords
Rural-urban migration, Kenya, Ethnic groups, Migration, Kenyan
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Economics
First Advisor
Alphonse G. Holtmann
Second Advisor
Clifford Kern
Third Advisor
Lorene Yap
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Huntington, Hillard Griswold, "An empirical study of ethnic linkages in Kenyan rural-urban migration" (1974). Graduate Dissertations and Theses. 265.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/dissertation_and_theses/265