Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 202-221). / The training of craftsmen in Kenya is the responsibility of their traditional employer the contractor. However, over the last 20 years, the contractors’ motivation to train has been eroded by increased casualisation. Concurrently, there was growth of the informal procurement system propagated by private sector clients, who have no incentive to train because they are ad hoc consumers of construction services. Together these phenomena led to the collapse of the formal craft training and growth of informal skilling. Currently however, there is a lack of knowledge and understanding of the nature of informal craft training. The intent of this research was to redress this by identifying the types of skills informally employed craftsmen are acquiring, how these skills are acquired and how training delivery can be enhanced. The hypotheses of the research were that the skills and skilling methods in the informal sector do not differ significantly from those in the formal sector and that the nature of training in the informal construction sector is clearly understood.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Jorge Meschiatti Nogueira.pdf: 407232 bytes, checksum: 2e359a68104f4d773b63582ba4e7c86a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-02-17 / This dissertation describes the connection of Information Science with Economics in the environment of social exclusion, outlining the historical scenario of these two sciences. It inserts the economic environment of social and information exclusion in a context, and classifies them under various denominations provided by literature. Finally, it applies the empiric methodology based on econometric, which uses data from technical magazines and books, provided by IBGE, through Family Budget Research Pesquisa de Or?amento Familiar (POF). In order to do so, it takes as an evolution comparative basis the 1987 and 1996 POF results, in which it is focused from several perspectives the distribution and concentration of information under the income and education viewpoints. It measures the consumption patterns of the wealthier and poorer levels, as well as the education levels. / Esta disserta??o retrata a liga??o da Ci?ncia da Informa??o com a Economia no ambiente da exclus?o social, tra?ando um panorama hist?rico do encontro destas duas ci?ncias. Contextualiza o ambiente econ?mico da exclus?o social e informacional, conceituando-as sob as diversas denomina??es fornecidas na literatura. Por fim, aplica metodologia emp?rica baseada na econometria, utilizando-se dos dados de consumo de livros e revistas t?cnicas, fornecidos pelo IBGE, por interm?dio da sua Pesquisa de Or?amento Familiar (POF). Para tanto, toma como base comparativa de evolu??o a POF de 1987 e a de 1996, enfocando sob diversos aspectos a distribui??o e concentra??o de informa??o sob a ?tica da renda e da instru??o, na mensura??o das diferen?as de consumo entre os estratos mais ricos e os mais pobres, os mais instru?dos e os menos instru?dos.