SOME SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN EAST AFRICA

In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 390-399

Abstract

The numbers who have entered the towns of East Africa in search of work have increased rapidly, partly in response to rising statutory minimum wages intended to encourage permanent Ur settlement. But employment opportunities have expanded much more slowly because pol'aL uncertainty has held back investment & because of a growing trend towards methods of production which economize in the use of labor. Official policy, esp in Kenya, has tended to take it for granted that indust'al development is dependent upon the formation of a permanent indust'al LF. This may have been true for the UK & the US in the 19th cent when skilled craftsmen formed a high % of the indust'al LF. In -East Africa at the present time it need not necessarily matter that the greater part of the LF continues to revolve between town & country provided that gov's & employers take proper steps to gear their training & management practices to this situation. AA.