By R. D. Grillo
This used to be the 1st anthropological monograph to have dealt at size with the labour strength of a massive East African undefined. it's a research of the African staff of the East African Railways and Harbours stationed at Kampala, Uganda, and residing at the Railway-owned Nsambya housing property. Set within the years 1964-5, almost immediately after Uganda's and Kenya's Independence, the booklet explores a number of the results for African migrant staff of the adjustments affecting their society. Dr Grillo describes how falling costs for fundamental agricultural items, academic growth and emerging wages have created a excessive call for for employment. these lucky adequate to discover paintings take pleasure in a comparatively excessive lifestyle. in part consequently, the Railway labour strength has turn into stabilised with a low turnover of staff, the vast majority of whom carry other halves and kids to stay on the town. they're, notwithstanding, nonetheless migrants who keep social and financial ties with their components of foundation. by way of pleasant primary and private tasks, members continue a place inside an 'ethnic' method which gives one framework for relationships of harmony and competition. The itself with its work-units, occupational teams and grading process offers one other.
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EARH housing is divided into seven classes and allocated according to grade (see Table 11, column 5). In most areas housing is collected into estates and there may be more than one estate per depot. At Nairobi there are several estates some distance apart, each comprising a single class of house. At Kampala the bulk of housing is at Nsambya, though this estate contains no units in classes 1 and 2. On Nsambya the houses in each class tend to be placed together, as may be seen in Figure 2 on p. xiii.
A number of welfare services are also provided of which the most important are the Railway Clubs. These are open to all railwaymen on payment of a small monthly fee and activities include film shows, meetings, lectures, dances, women's classes and sports. A bar is usually attached which is a convenient meeting place. At Nsambya and on other estates the welfare services include a nursery and a small primary school. The EARH publishes a monthly magazine, Spear, and a fortnightly newspaper, Sikio, which means ' ear' in Swahili.
Discipline and industrial relations The conduct of railwaymen at work is governed by the Staff Regulations which lay down in considerable detail how jobs should be performed. It is the duty of every railwayman to follow these regulations and should they be infringed an offence is committed. 2 : (a) An employee may be dealt with under these Regulations and charged with committing an offence if he: neglects, disregards or without sufficient reasons fails to comply with an order, regulation, standing order or departmental instruction; or incapacitates himself for the performance of any of his duties by indulgence in any stimulant; or improperly discloses any information respecting the affairs of the Administration to any unauthorised person; or is convicted by a court of an offence; or otherwise misconducts himself within the meaning of paragraph (b).