Desperate, deceived and disappointed: women’s lives and labour in rural Ethiopia and Uganda

IF 0.8 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI:10.1080/02589001.2021.1998393

J. Sender, C. Cramer

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Life history interviews from Ethiopia and Uganda, organised around experiences of wage labour, provide rich evidence on the working conditions of many poor, rural women and on what leads them to work for wages. The life histories confirm and illuminate arguments based on large-scale socio-economic surveys carried out in these two countries. Further, findings from the surveys and life histories challenge an influential literature that not only celebrates women’s agency in poor rural areas, but also remains committed to methodological individualism and ideas of choice. Drawing on primary and secondary evidence from Africa (and elsewhere), we insist that violent coercion and catastrophe trump maximising rational selection among alternatives; that the social is fundamental to individual behaviour; and the non-market is key to (labour) market participation. We also provide a brief discussion of the policy implications of this research.

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绝望、受骗和失望：埃塞俄比亚和乌干达农村妇女的生活和劳动

来自埃塞俄比亚和乌干达的生活史访谈围绕雇佣劳动的经历进行，为许多贫困农村妇女的工作条件以及导致她们为工资而工作的原因提供了丰富的证据。生活史证实并阐明了基于在这两个国家进行的大规模社会经济调查的论点。此外，调查和生活史的结果挑战了一种有影响力的文献，这种文献不仅颂扬贫穷农村地区妇女的能动性，而且仍然致力于方法论上的个人主义和选择的思想。根据来自非洲(和其他地方)的第一手和第二手证据，我们坚持认为，暴力胁迫和灾难胜过在各种选择中实现理性选择最大化;社会是个人行为的基础;而非市场是(劳动力)市场参与的关键。我们还简要讨论了这项研究的政策含义。

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies AREA STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Contemporary African Studies (JCAS) is an interdisciplinary journal seeking to promote an African-centred scholarly understanding of societies on the continent and their location within the global political economy. Its scope extends across a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines with topics covered including, but not limited to, culture, development, education, environmental questions, gender, government, labour, land, leadership, political economy politics, social movements, sociology of knowledge and welfare. JCAS welcomes contributions reviewing general trends in the academic literature with a specific focus on debates and developments in Africa as part of a broader aim of contributing towards the development of viable communities of African scholarship. The journal publishes original research articles, book reviews, notes from the field, debates, research reports and occasional review essays. It also publishes special issues and welcomes proposals for new topics. JCAS is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October.