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- ItemA summary of for love or for money – or both? by Nancy Folbre and Julie A. NelsonNjenga, GeorgeNancy Folbre and Julie Nelson study the shift from non‐market to market labour in the contemporary society, of the United States of America (US). The consequences are far reaching with regard to social care, economics and the link between the consequences of women shifting from family and social relationship building to paid labour in the market. The authors see this as a change in the “social contract”. The move of women, previously responsible for the “emotional” dimension of society (child care, social relationships, homemakers), from their traditional roles to paid jobs in the market is the underlying issue and they describe it in a trite and dynamic phrase – “For Love or For Money”.
- ItemA Summary of the article; “Final Reflections”Njenga, George
- ItemAfrican prehistoric societiesNjenga, George
- ItemDevelopment of monarchies and the process of political IntegrationNjenga, GeorgeSummary of “The history of World Economy, The development of Political Economy by Javier Anton Pelayo and Antoni Simón Tarrés
- ItemFraming Africa’s historical contextNjenga, George
- ItemHistory of Kenya to 1900 : a synopsis of the history of Kenya before ColonisationNjenga, GeorgeWisdom@Strathmore series
- ItemLeadership : reason and heart of leadershipNjenga, George
- ItemMatrimony: A key element in the demographic system of Modern EuropeNjenga, GeorgeIn this paper, I summarize Moreno’s work cited above. This summary discusses the factors affecting human natural fertility and also considers European experience during the Modern period. This has been made possible thanks to the advancement of the science of human fertility over the last 60 years. Some theories on “demographic Change” in the 1950’s and 60’s, proposed that human fertility, before ‘the modern transition’, had reached its “biological limit” and the only fundamental variable regulating its changes in the short, medium and long term was ‘mortality’.1 No one doubts that past mortality levels were higher than our contemporary experience. Besides, variations in mortality, be they ordinary or extraordinary (as a result of wars, hunger and infection), played a greater role than presently in regulating population increase. However, it is one hypothesis to admit that mortality played a crucial role in population demographics and another to propose that ultimately variations in population demographics depended exclusively on changes in mortality. Was that really the case? Were there other factors that significantly affected population growth? More, how did western civilization regulate fertility before the demographic transition?
- ItemPower and organization life cyclesNjenga, GeorgeA Summary of Henry Mintzberg’s Work on Power and Organizational Life Cycles (Academy of Management Review. 1984. Vol. 9, No. 2. 207‐224)
- ItemThe Feudal system in Medieval Europe (7th-14th Century A.D.)Njenga, GeorgeThis document is a summary of the European feudal system in the medieval ages from an excerpt by: SB Clough y RT Rapp, Historia Economica de Europa. El desarrollo Económico de la Civilización Occidental, Barcelona, Omega, 1986, Cap.3.
- ItemThe Monogamous family : a historical perspectiveNjenga, GeorgeThe reasons and consequences of the Catholic Church’s historical position on marriage among relatives since the 4th century have been extensively debated by many socio‐historians. The assertions made by Jack Goody that the Catholic Church’s position on Marriage among relatives was based merely on economic reasons, has been amply debated. Against Goody’s hypothesis history shows that during the early medieval age other Christian Churches and certain Jews proposed similar rules on marriage as the Catholic Church. On the other hand Christianity’s rebellion against religious preponderance of lineage has had a great influence on the advance of the said prohibitions.
- ItemThoughts on the modern leader and his organizational environmentNjenga, GeorgePower and especially the power to influence human beings, power to unite persons within an organization and society cannot be ignored because of the important role it plays. It is a capacity that can be used to make or destroy human life, society and well being. In order to understand power, it is necessary to know the agents of power, how they wield it and for what object. In our modern environment the agents of power face a changing society that is more Democratic. I mean by democracy that “at the heart of the democratic ideal lies the notion of equal freedom for all to deliberate the aims of society”.