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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... response . The norms that correspond to these patterns of action include affective neutrality , or submission to the goals of the organization as stated by the authority figure . Performance rather than quality becomes the basis for ...
... response . The norms that correspond to these patterns of action include affective neutrality , or submission to the goals of the organization as stated by the authority figure . Performance rather than quality becomes the basis for ...
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... response of buyers and sellers to shifts in preferences ex- pressed in prices . Without here arguing the various intrinsic and empirical limitations on market operation , it appears that consumers will make budgetary decisions ...
... response of buyers and sellers to shifts in preferences ex- pressed in prices . Without here arguing the various intrinsic and empirical limitations on market operation , it appears that consumers will make budgetary decisions ...
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... response to the same motivations . In a strict sense the stationary economic state is not found in the real world , and the analysis of its model is uninteresting . Aboriginal socie- ties are often characterized as stationary , but they ...
... response to the same motivations . In a strict sense the stationary economic state is not found in the real world , and the analysis of its model is uninteresting . Aboriginal socie- ties are often characterized as stationary , but they ...
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... response to Victorian missionary culture , and the Melanesian village communities supplying migrant plantation labor instead of be- coming peasant proprietors . It appears that for many newly developing economies the movement from one ...
... response to Victorian missionary culture , and the Melanesian village communities supplying migrant plantation labor instead of be- coming peasant proprietors . It appears that for many newly developing economies the movement from one ...
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... response laborers make to a new enterprise and to the new economic behavior required of them is largely determined by their previous cultural conditioning . In an unfamiliar setting they seek analogues to traditional institutions and ...
... response laborers make to a new enterprise and to the new economic behavior required of them is largely determined by their previous cultural conditioning . In an unfamiliar setting they seek analogues to traditional institutions and ...
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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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