Erasing Class/ (re)Creating Ethnicity: Jobs, Politics, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya
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- Mwangi Gĩthĩnji, 2015. "Erasing Class/(Re)Creating Ethnicity: Jobs, Politics, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer;National Economic Association, vol. 42(1), pages 87-110, June.
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Keywords
Social Stratification; Discrimination; ethnicity; Kenya; inequality; class; employment.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- N37 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Africa; Oceania
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2012-09-22 (Africa)
- NEP-DEM-2012-09-22 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-HME-2012-09-22 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-SOC-2012-09-22 (Social Norms & Social Capital)
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