By Margaret Peil
A pioneering examine of the social facets of industrialisation in a constructing nation in tropical Africa. even though business employees shape a comparatively small share of the Ghanaian inhabitants, they characterize the 'modern' quarter of the economic system and business jobs are a lot wanted through institution leavers. The occupational and migration histories, the paintings and residential lives of those women and men are tested within the framework of present theories of modernity to illustrate the results of industrialisation in these international locations the place the method has now not but long gone very a ways. This ebook surveys the sphere of industrialisation in Ghana and its results via such different elements as migration. It offers a beneficial comparability either with industrialisation in different places and with different features of African social existence.
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An additional problem is that few if any of the managers see the usefulness of statistics, so they feel no pressure to improve their accuracy. Quite a few firms had a lower number of workers by actual count than the number stated by management. In the extreme case, we had been told that there were forty-two workers, but only managed to get thirty interviews (the minimum necessary for inclusion in the sample) by including all the supervisory staff. THE LABOUR FORCE The size of the labour force in many firms varies considerably over time.
Iv and Special Report A. a Urban population: Ghanaians, living in places of 10,000+; for the foreignborn, in places of 5,000-f. b Mining and general labourers and longshoremen but not agricultural labourers. 3 shows the proportions of men from these countries in various types of work in Ghanaian towns. Early missionaries to the Ewes encouraged their converts to become craftsmen, and Ewes from the Volta Region of 37 The factories Ghana and from southern Togo are particularly noted as carpenters.
It is often more economic to export raw materials than to process them before exporting. Once capital has been invested and the processing firm established, there may be no choice but to continue uneconomic production, though timber firms with their own sawmills may vary the proportion of sawn timber to logs exported. The situation at firm Q^was just the opposite. It was expected that the number of workers would double in the next six months and would eventually reach 1,500. The workers hired in the first months of production thought their chances of steady work and promotion were good and were willing to endure the poor housing and lack of amenities in the village in view of their prospects.