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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... Mossi : Objects of Deliberate Change 111 Analysis of the Failure to Achieve Commitment of the Mossi Labor Force 113 Settlement of the Labor Force 113 Forced Recruitment 114 Artificial Village Replication 115 Artificial Maintenance of ...
... Mossi : Objects of Deliberate Change 111 Analysis of the Failure to Achieve Commitment of the Mossi Labor Force 113 Settlement of the Labor Force 113 Forced Recruitment 114 Artificial Village Replication 115 Artificial Maintenance of ...
Page 111
... Mossi from the neighboring Upper Volta kingdom of Yatenga.2 The traditional way of life of the Mossi has been relatively undis- turbed by European cultural influences . They are millet farmers . With the assistance of their kinsmen ...
... Mossi from the neighboring Upper Volta kingdom of Yatenga.2 The traditional way of life of the Mossi has been relatively undis- turbed by European cultural influences . They are millet farmers . With the assistance of their kinsmen ...
Page 112
... Mossi kinship unit is delegated to the eldest male in the patrilineage , who also serves as intermediary with the ancestral spirits . Control over the supernatural forces of the environment is the prerogative of Earth Custodians be ...
... Mossi kinship unit is delegated to the eldest male in the patrilineage , who also serves as intermediary with the ancestral spirits . Control over the supernatural forces of the environment is the prerogative of Earth Custodians be ...
Page 113
... MOSSI LABOR FORCE The cycle of managerial activities affecting the achievement of labor force commitment begins with decision making . The first managerial decision likely to affect labor commitment relates to the kind of labor force to ...
... MOSSI LABOR FORCE The cycle of managerial activities affecting the achievement of labor force commitment begins with decision making . The first managerial decision likely to affect labor commitment relates to the kind of labor force to ...
Page 114
... Mossi as a permanent labor force rather than to rely on migratory labor , it failed to perceive the cultural aspects of the alternatives from which it had to choose . The result was a decision least likely to achieve labor commitment ...
... Mossi as a permanent labor force rather than to rely on migratory labor , it failed to perceive the cultural aspects of the alternatives from which it had to choose . The result was a decision least likely to achieve labor commitment ...
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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