From peasant to artisan: motor mechanics in a Nigerian town

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Title:	From peasant to artisan: motor mechanics in a Nigerian town
Author:	Berry, Sara
Year:	1983
Issue:	76
Language:	English
Series:	Working papers
City of publisher:	Boston
Publisher:	African Studies Center, Boston University
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	engineers economic development
Abstract:	In recent years, western Nigeria has witnessed a rapid movement of people and resources from the agricultural to the non-agricultural sectors of the economy. Much of this movement has involved the proliferation of self-employed, small-scale entrepreneurs and the investment of agricultural surplus in the tertiary sector. The present paper explores the implications of these developments for the processes of economic growth, class formation and political conflict in western Nigeria. It is based on interviews and observations carried out among a small sample of motor mechanics in Ife.