Agro-industrial Labour in Kenya Cut Flower Farms and Migrant Workers
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Agro-industrial Labour in Kenya
Gerda Kuiper
Agro-industrial Labour in Kenya Cut Flower Farms and Migrant Workers’ Settlements
Gerda Kuiper Global South Studies Centre University of Cologne Köln, Germany
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Acknowledgements
Although I have spent many hours alone behind my computer screen, writing this book has been far from a solitary process and I have to thank a number of people for their contributions and support. First of all, I am grateful to everyone in Naivasha who helped me with this research and who spent time with me while I was there. Special thanks go out to my assistants and key informants (most of all to those whom I call Flora, Lucy, and Richard in this book) and to the management and employees of “Karibu Farm”. I would not have been able to write this book without their cooperation and interest. This book was originally written as a PhD thesis. I thank my PhD supervisor Michael Bollig for initiating the (sub)project of which this research formed a part and for his constructive comments over the past five years. In addition, I thank David Anderson, Dorothea Schulz, and participants in several colloquia and workshops in Cologne and Bonn for their comments on preliminary ideas and on draft chapters. My inclusion into another subproject led by Clemens Greiner and Patrick Sakdapolrak provided me with some extra time to finish this book while it al
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