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Industrialization in Ethiopia: Awakening - Crisis - Outlooks

The Example of the Textile Industry

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Editors:
  1. Reimer Gronemeyer

    1. Institut für Soziologie, Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany

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  2. Michaela Fink

    1. Institut für Soziologie, Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany

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  • Provides comprehensive review on Ethiopian textile industry
  • Discussion on turnover and absenteeism
  • Results from interviews with female workers and with managers

Part of the book series: Sozialwissenschaftliche Zugänge zu Afrika (SZA)

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Ethiopia, though remaining one of the least urbanised countries in the world, has taken impressive actions to transform the state into a more industrialized nation.Several industrial parks have been built in recent years throughout the whole country. The textile sector is one of these sectors. The textile industry is expected to provide employment for hundreds of thousands and thus improve people's living conditions and contribute to the development of the country. Major reason for asian investors to shift their focus to Ethiopia are extremely low wages and the lower production costs involved. The Ethiopian textile industry has to deal with high rates of labor turnover and absenteeism. From the perspective of the mostly international managers the reason for turnover and absenteeism is often attributed to the 'mindset' of the predominantly female workforce. A research project financed by the German Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung is looking at reasons and possible measures to solve this problem. Results of this project (conducted at the University of Giessen by Michaela Fink and Reimer Gronemeyer together with Ethiopian colleagues are presented in this book. Experts from Ethiopia and Germany are presenting the history of the textile industry in Ethiopia and the coming development. All this is framed by the discussion of present crisis - Covid-19; the war - in Ethiopia).


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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. The Ethiopian Textile Industry: A Beacon of Hope or a Hotspot of Crisis?

    • Michaela Fink, Reimer Gronemeyer
    Pages 1-13

  3. Correction to: Economic Development at All Costs? The Ethiopian Garment Industry and its Female Workers

    • Hanna Rössner
    Pages C1-C1

  4. Essays from a Research Project on Labor Turnover and Absenteeism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Understanding the Causes of High Labor Turnover and Absenteeism in the Ethiopian Textile and Garment Industry: Interviews with (Female) Workers and Management Personnel

      • Michaela Fink
      Pages 17-68

    3. Ethiopian Women in the Textile and Garment Industry—Inquiry into Their Working Conditions and Withdrawal Intentions

      • Tesfaye Semela, Setisemhal Getachew, Daniel Semela
      Pages 69-119

    4. Working in the Ethiopian Textile Industry: Villagers’ Perception

      • Michaela Fink, Reimer Gronemeyer
      Pages 121-128

    5. Labor Related Challenges of Textile and Garment Industries in the Ethiopian Industrial Parks: The Perspective of Stakeholders

      • Gifawosen Markos Mitta
      Pages 129-158

    6. Economic Development at All Costs? The Ethiopian Garment Industry and its Female Workers

      • Hanna Rössner
      Pages 159-183

  6. How the Textile Industry in Ethiopia Emerged

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Building Industrial Infrastructure: Experiences of the Ethiopian Case

      • Belachew Fikre
      Pages 227-239

    3. A Historical Perspective on the Traditional Ethiopian Textile Industry and Its Significance for Modern Ethiopian Society

      • Simon Frodl-Dietschmann
      Pages 241-252

    4. Conclusion and Outlook

      • Michaela Fink, Reimer Gronemeyer, Hanna Rössner
      Pages 253-265
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Soziologie, Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany

    Reimer Gronemeyer, Michaela Fink

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Reimer Gronemeyer and Dr. Michaela Fink work at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Gießen.   

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Industrialization in Ethiopia: Awakening - Crisis - Outlooks

  • Book Subtitle: The Example of the Textile Industry

  • Editors: Reimer Gronemeyer, Michaela Fink

  • Series Title: Sozialwissenschaftliche Zugänge zu Afrika

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41794-9

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-41793-2Published: 24 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-41794-9Published: 23 November 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2662-6071

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-608X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 265

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work, Social Anthropology

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