Labor Commitment and Social Change in Developing AreasSocial Science Research Council, 1960 - 378 pages This work examines the intended and unanticipated consequences of economic advancement in developing areas and the commitment of industrial labor. Both the short-term acceptance of the attitudes and beliefs appropriate to a modernized economy are discussed. |
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achievement African agricultural analysis associated Baganda become behavior Bombay Cantel capital cash crops caste cultural demand differential discipline durables East Africa economic development economic growth employers entrepreneurship function goals groups important income countries increase India individual indus industrial development industrial employment industrial labor force industrial labor market industrial societies institutions involved Jamshedpur Kampala Kingsley Davis kinship labor market labor unrest M. N. Srinivas machine managerial ment mobility modern nationalists newly developing areas Nigeria nomic nonindustrial norms occupational operation opportunities organization participation pattern percent plant political entrepreneurs population position preindustrial prestige problems process of commitment production Puerto Rico recruitment relations relatively rewards role rural sector significant situation skilled social system status stratification structure Talcott Parsons tend tion town trade unions traditional transition tribal turnover types Uganda underdeveloped areas unskilled urban values wage labor workers
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