Migrant workers in an urban situation: a comparative study of factory workers and building sites labourers in Khartoum (Sudan)

No abstract in thesis. Extract from introduction: This is a study of migrant workers in two different wage-earning, urban situations. It deals with a number of problems in the field of urban and industrial sociology which have by now long been centred in African social anthropological and sociological literature, as well as in other parts of the Third World, particularly in Latin America. The main purpose of the thesis is to conduct a comparative analysis of migrant behaviour in two very different kinds of industrial situations. I first studied workers in two fairly similar establishments, the Blue Nile Brewery and the Modern Company for the Production and Distribution of Matches. After that, I turned my attention for comparison to manual workers on building sites under the control of private entrepreneurs. The brewery and the match factory are located in the industrial area of the town of Khartoum North, and the building sites I studied are mainly in Khartoum itself.