Technology and Underdevelopment [electronic resource

## Preface to the First Edition While working on the topics discussed in this book I have received help and support from various sources. The Rockefeller Foundation provided some financial assistance for the surveys (Chapter 9 and 10) in Kenya in 1969. The Ministry of Overseas Development supported the research for three years, 1969-72. I am grateful to the O.D.M. for this and for their approval of publication in this form. I have received extremely useful research assistance at different times from Gareth Jenkins, Jill Rubery and Jeffrey James. I am particularly grateful to Jeffrey for his assiduous help over the past few months. Numerous people have commented on various papers, which, in revised form, have become chapters in this book. I should particularly like to mention Charles Cooper (for comments on Chapter 5), G. K. Helleiner and participants at the Uppsala Conference in September 1974 (Chapter 7), and Ajit Bhalla (Chapter 10). For encouragement and stimulus I am above all indebted to Paul Streeten. Finally, as always, Michael Stewart's sceptical wit provided both challenge and support. Three of the chapters are versions (with many minor and some major amendments) of papers that have been published elsewhere: Chapter 6 appeared in Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy: Essays in Honour of H. W. Singer, ed. A. Cairncross and M. Puri (Macmillan, 1976); Chapter 7 is based on an essay in G. K. Helleiner (ed.), A World Divided (Cambridge University Press, 1976); and Chapter 10 appeared in A. Bhalla (ed.), Technology and Employment in Industry: A Case Study Approach (Geneva: I.L. O., 1975). Some of the discussion in the first part of this book has its origin in two earlier papers: 'The Choice of Technique in Developing Countries', Front Matter....Pages i-xiv The Technological Choice....Pages 1-31 The Employment Problem — a Conceptual Discussion....Pages 32-57 Inappropriate Technology....Pages 58-94 Appropriate Technology....Pages 95-113 Technological Dependence....Pages 114-140 Capital Goods in Developing Countries....Pages 141-156 Trade and Technology....Pages 157-184 The Choice of Technique: Empirical Studies....Pages 185-207 The Choice of Technique — Maize Grinding in Kenya....Pages 208-238 Cement Block Manufacture in Kenya....Pages 239-273 Some Conclusions....Pages 274-279 Back Matter....Pages 280-303