Labour Relations in the Naivasha Cut-Flower Industry: A Moral Economy Approach

Gerda Kuiper

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Chapter 8 Labour Relations in the Naivasha Cut-Flower Industry: A Moral Economy Approach

于Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya

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Page Range:: 176–197

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004695429_009

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Labour conditions on the Naivasha flower farms, arguably the most important pillar of Naivasha’s economy, have been scrutinized in the light of global discussions on ethical trade. However, the moral expectations that farm employees themselves have in and of their workplace have received little attention. In this chapter, based on ethnographic fieldwork, I focus on the mutual expectations between the (mostly foreign) top managers, Kenyan middle-level managers, and general workers. I therewith analyse the particular moral economy that has developed in the Naivasha cut-flower industry. The chapter deviates from common approaches in the analysis of moral economies in two ways: first, I seek to discern the contours of the Naivasha flower industry’s moral economy by focusing on the industry’s stability rather than on breakdown and resistance; and second, I adopt an intersectional approach rather than primarily focusing on class. The local moral economy is constituted between actors who are in majority considered, and who consider themselves, to be non-locals and only temporary residents, even if many of them stay in Naivasha for decades. These actors enter the industry with their own morals and work-related values, as shaped by their national, ethnic, religious, and class backgrounds as well as their gender. I conclude that the diversity of actors in Naivasha has resulted in a particular moral economy, distinctive from other flower-producing areas in Kenya and beyond.

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Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya

丛编： Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 卷： 34

ISBN:: 9789004695429

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 03 Jun 2024

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