LSE - Small Logo
LSE - Small Logo

Blog Editor

May 16th, 2014

Photo blog – Revealing the Invisible: rural wage workers in Ethiopia and Uganda

3 comments

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Blog Editor

May 16th, 2014

Photo blog – Revealing the Invisible: rural wage workers in Ethiopia and Uganda

3 comments

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

A new photo exhibition at the SOAS entitled Revealing the Invisible: rural wage workers in Ethiopia and Uganda provides an insight into the lived experiences of people who depend on wage employment in the production of tea, coffee, and flowers. This exhibition is from a four-year, DFID-funded research project: Fairtrade, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda. Follow this link to read the full report for this project.

SOAS_Context

Here we see some of the homes where wage workers live in one site
Here we see some of the homes where wage workers live in one site
Woman at work carrying a heavy bundle
Portrait of a woman carrying heavy bundles
Women at work cleaning legumes
Women at work cleaning coffee beans

SOAS_context_2

Revealing the Invisible: rural wage workers in Ethiopia and Uganda will be showing in the Wolfson Gallery in SOAS Library from Friday May 16 to Tuesday June 3 Mondays-Thursdays 9am-8pm; Fridays 9am-7pm; Saturdays 10.30am-6.30pm; Sundays – Closed.

About the author

Blog Editor

Posted In: Development

3 Comments

Bad Behavior has blocked 279770 access attempts in the last 7 days.