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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... employed in claiming exclusive ownership of certain machines is the necessity of sensitive mutual adjustments be- tween workers and machines . Available evidence does not indicate the extent to which such sensitive mutual adjustments ...
... employed in claiming exclusive ownership of certain machines is the necessity of sensitive mutual adjustments be- tween workers and machines . Available evidence does not indicate the extent to which such sensitive mutual adjustments ...
Page 25
... employed for predicting ease of commitment to industrial property norms is : the ease of com- mitment varies directly with the similarity of property norms . Accord- ing to this hypothesis , the worker in the preindustrial society whose ...
... employed for predicting ease of commitment to industrial property norms is : the ease of com- mitment varies directly with the similarity of property norms . Accord- ing to this hypothesis , the worker in the preindustrial society whose ...
Page 46
... employ- ability ; a wage or income orientation to jobs , which does not exclude other orientations but constitutes a minimum essential for participa- tion ; and job mobility . Of these the most significant is mobility , partly because ...
... employ- ability ; a wage or income orientation to jobs , which does not exclude other orientations but constitutes a minimum essential for participa- tion ; and job mobility . Of these the most significant is mobility , partly because ...
Page 47
... employed because of disguised unemployment and under- employment in agriculture . Although this shift from the primary sec- tors is economically attractive to the social planner and perhaps in the long run should be so to the laborer ...
... employed because of disguised unemployment and under- employment in agriculture . Although this shift from the primary sec- tors is economically attractive to the social planner and perhaps in the long run should be so to the laborer ...
Page 96
... employ wage labor , maximize monetary profit , and reinvest capital as would the Western industrialist . We would expect that the labor supply would relate to kinship obligation and be rewarded by feasting or reciprocal duty , and that ...
... employ wage labor , maximize monetary profit , and reinvest capital as would the Western industrialist . We would expect that the labor supply would relate to kinship obligation and be rewarded by feasting or reciprocal duty , and that ...
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achievement African agencies of socialization agricultural analysis associated Baganda become behavior capital commodity market consumer consumption contractual countries cultural demand differential economic development economic growth employer factory forms function goals groups important income increase India individual indus industrial employment industrial labor force industrial societies institutions involved Jamshedpur Kampala Kingsley Davis kinship labor commitment labor force labor market labor unrest limited machine managerial ment mobility modern Moore Mossi nationalists newly developing areas nomic nonindustrial norms occupational operation opportunities orientations participation patterns percent political entrepreneurs population position preindustrial prestige problems process of commitment production organization Puerto Rico recruitment relations relatively rewards role rural sector situation skilled social stratification social structure social system Sociological specific status stratification Talcott Parsons technological tend tion tional town trade unions traditional transitional tribal types Uganda underdeveloped areas urban values wage labor Wilbert workers
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