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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Manual workers in Uganda |
Authors: | Aluma, J.R.W. Kamugisha-Ruhombe, J. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Labour, Capital and Society |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 66-84 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subject: | work environment |
Abstract: | The research presented here was the first large-scale attempt to collect data on the factors which affect worker performance, efficiency, safety, health and general well-being at work in Uganda. The research was carried out in 1979-1984 among 3,811 workers (mainly manual) from 37 work places (forests, wood-based factories, cotton mills, agricultural farm-produce handling stores), most of them located in the southern and western regions of the country. Data were collected on workers' origins, body size and constitution, education and training, job choice and years worked, nutrition, physical work capacity, diseases and health, safety, and absenteeism. The main conclusions were that workers were unfit to perform at high levels of efficiency; they were inadequately fed, poorly motivated and dissatisfied with their work; due to unfavourable working conditions, workers felt alienated from their work; work, workers, and working environment were incompatible, resulting in low productivity. Bibliogr., sum. in French. |