Jua kali Kenya : change & development in an informal economy, 1970-95 /
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Author / Creator: | King, Kenneth, 1940- |
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Imprint: | Athens : Ohio University Press, 1996. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Eastern African studies Eastern African studies (London, England) |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11103886 |
ISBN: | 0585067139 9780585067131 0852552408 0852552394 082141156X 0821411578 9780852552407 9780852552391 9780821411568 9780821411575 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-227) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | "Kenya was where the term 'informal sector' was first used in 1971. During the 1980s the term 'jua kali' - in Swahili 'hot sun' - came to be used of the informal sector artisans, such as carworkers and metalworkers, who were working under the hot sun because of a lack of premises. Gradually it came to refer to anybody in self-employment. And in 1988 the government set up the Jua Kali Development Programme." "In this remarkable book Kenneth King brings the subject alive through the photographs and life histories of jua kali people. He has also revisited, twenty years later, many of the artisans whom he interviewed exhaustively in the period 1972-4 and about whom he wrote in The African Artisan, one of the first full length studies to be published on the informal sector." "For donors, NGOs and for national governments, the book offers many relevant examples, and some cautions, about what has been achieved by ordinary Kenyas, mostly without government support. It will prove equally valuable for students and teachers of development policy, technology policy and of education and training policies not least because of its superb bibliography of over 700 entries related to small enterprise development."--Jacket. |
Other form: | Print version: King, Kenneth, 1940- Jua kali Kenya. Athens : Ohio University Press, 1996 0852552408 |
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