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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... Baganda Long - Term Migrants : The Luo 247 251 Limits of Industrial Development in Uganda 14 CHANGING CRAFT TRADITIONS IN INDIA by Milton Singer The Clash of " Industrialism " and " Traditionalism " 254 258 258 Theory of Uniform ...
... Baganda Long - Term Migrants : The Luo 247 251 Limits of Industrial Development in Uganda 14 CHANGING CRAFT TRADITIONS IN INDIA by Milton Singer The Clash of " Industrialism " and " Traditionalism " 254 258 258 Theory of Uniform ...
Page 246
... Baganda nor the Luo in the towns are com- is more reliable than the proportion itself ; a large number of dependents were probably mistresses or " town wives . " Real wages in 1953 were lower than they had been in 1952 . 8 These figures ...
... Baganda nor the Luo in the towns are com- is more reliable than the proportion itself ; a large number of dependents were probably mistresses or " town wives . " Real wages in 1953 were lower than they had been in 1952 . 8 These figures ...
Page 247
... Baganda Of all the peoples of Uganda , only the Baganda are able to join the urban labor force without leaving home , for the major centers of employment lie within their tribal territory . Kampala has grown up adjacent to Mengo , the ...
... Baganda Of all the peoples of Uganda , only the Baganda are able to join the urban labor force without leaving home , for the major centers of employment lie within their tribal territory . Kampala has grown up adjacent to Mengo , the ...
Page 248
... Baganda have re- tained their lead during six decades of British administration . A major factor supporting the Baganda's leading position has been the relatively prosperous agriculture which developed after 1900. Tradi- tionally the ...
... Baganda have re- tained their lead during six decades of British administration . A major factor supporting the Baganda's leading position has been the relatively prosperous agriculture which developed after 1900. Tradi- tionally the ...
Page 249
... Baganda are reluctant to commit themselves permanently to urban employment , particularly at the less well - paid levels . Even though most opportunities for wage labor lie within Buganda , by far the greater part of the unskilled labor ...
... Baganda are reluctant to commit themselves permanently to urban employment , particularly at the less well - paid levels . Even though most opportunities for wage labor lie within Buganda , by far the greater part of the unskilled labor ...
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achievement African agricultural analysis associated authority Baganda become behavior capital consumers consumption contractual cultural demand differential East Africa economic development economic growth employers factory forms function goals groups important increase India individual indus industrial employment industrial labor force industrial labor market industrial societies institutions involved Jamshedpur Kampala Kingsley Davis kinship labor commitment labor force labor market labor unrest limited M. N. Srinivas machine managerial ment mobility modern Moore Mossi nationalists newly developing areas Niger nomic nonindustrial norms occupational operation opportunities orientation 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 skill social system specific status stratification Talcott Parsons technological tend tion town trade unions traditional transition tribal turnover types Uganda underdeveloped areas urban values wage labor workers Yatenga