Women provide the need for a major reassessment of the labour relations in the sugar industry which results in positive attempts to maximize on their labour in western Kenya. The sugar industry sought to encourage women particularly in Kakamega, Bungoma and Busia, in order to bolster sugarcane output in the area. With the onset of the private sugar companies in the area, exemplified by Butali, West Kenya and Busibwabo, sugarcane production had to continue to prosper instead of diminishing at the expense of the benefits to the labourers (the women). The Luhya women in the area bore the greatest responsibility of ensuring that sugarcane is not only produced to meet the needs of the “hungry” sugar companies, but equally the returns from sugarcane production was substantial. By 2004, increased women labour in the sugarcane industry of western Kenya had produced Luhya proto-capitalists (exclusively men), who had managed to accumulate the returns from sugarcane production at the expense of the woman labourer. The Luhya proto-capitalists have threatened the sociological equilibrium in western Kenya which saw the women in the area toil in the sugar industry for nil at the expense of communal solidarities. This paper applies the concepts of utility and expropriation to analyze how women were exploitatively utilized in the sugar industry for nil returns. The concepts illustrate how the sugar companies squeezed the labour out of the Luhya women while the Luhya men siphoned the sugarcane returns from the women labour, therefore, letting the women in the western toil for nil in the sugar industry. This paper is founded on paramountcy of primary data, from farmers’ records corroborated by researcher observations, interviews and backed up by secondary data especially library literature for purpose of content and context analysis and grounding.