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Employee Challenges in Kenya, 1975-2024 Showcasing Nzoia Sugar Company, Bungoma County
Elydah Nangila Simiyu
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This article presents a historical analysis of the challenges faced by employees of Nzoia Sugar Company (NSC) in Bungoma County, Kenya from 1975 to 2024. Using a historical research design, the study traces how employee challenges such as wage deprivation and demotivation, technological decline, job insecurity, exclusion from decision-making and deteriorating working conditions emerged, developed, and compounded over five decades of institutional history. It is guided by Myrdal's (1957) Theory of Cumulative and Cyclical Interdependence, which provides the historical framework for understanding how each challenge reinforced the others over time. The findings reveal that the difficulties faced by NSC's workforce are not recent occurrences but the accumulated outcome of governance failures whose roots lie in the company's earliest decades. It concludes with a recommendation for governance reform and identifies a direction for further historical inquiry.
