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

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dc.contributor.authorSender, John
dc.contributor.authorCramer, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-26T12:24:31Z
dc.date.available2023-05-26T12:24:31Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-10
dc.description.abstractLife 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSender, John, and Christopher Cramer. 'Desperate, Deceived and Disappointed: Women's Lives and Labour in Rural Ethiopia and Uganda', Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol. 40/no. 2, (2022), pp. 153-171.en_US
dc.identifier.issnISSN 0258-9001
dc.identifier.issnEISSN 1469-9397
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/8809
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.subjectwage labour; choice; violence; genderen_US
dc.titleDesperate, deceived and disappointed: women's lives and labour in rural Ethiopia and Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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