Roses from Kenya : Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers /

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"Kenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and other flowers sold annually in the European Union. This industry-which employs at least 90,000 workers, most of whom are women-is lucrative but enduringly controversial. More than half the flowers are grown near the shores of Lake...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Styles, Megan A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Floriculture.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Floriculture > Kenya > Naivasha.
Rose industry > Environmental aspects > Kenya > Naivasha.
Rose industry > Social aspects > Kenya > Naivasha.
Kenya > Naivasha.
Naivasha (Kenya) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Naivasha (Kenya) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Place, Power, and Possibility in a Kenyan Nerve Center
  • Situating Naivasha
  • Low-Wage Laborers: Sacrifice in a Slippery Context
  • Black Kenyan Professionals: Seeking Exposure
  • Floriculture and the State: Building and Branding Kenya
  • White Kenyans and Expatriates: Belonging and Control

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