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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... Agricultural Workers 144 Permanence of Involvement in Industrial Employment 149 Participation of Women in the Industrial Labor Market 150 Workers ' Market Behavior and Other Indexes of the Level of Commitment 152 Stability 153 ...
... Agricultural Workers 144 Permanence of Involvement in Industrial Employment 149 Participation of Women in the Industrial Labor Market 150 Workers ' Market Behavior and Other Indexes of the Level of Commitment 152 Stability 153 ...
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... 28 Bell , op . cit . , pp . 9-22 ; David Riesman and others , The Lonely Crowd ( Garden City : Doubleday & Company , 1953 ) , pp . 32–48 . agriculture or hunting and gathering . Although factory labor there THE WORK PLACE 29 Specialization.
... 28 Bell , op . cit . , pp . 9-22 ; David Riesman and others , The Lonely Crowd ( Garden City : Doubleday & Company , 1953 ) , pp . 32–48 . agriculture or hunting and gathering . Although factory labor there THE WORK PLACE 29 Specialization.
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... agricultural peasant moving into the factory does not experience a dilution of his skills . His social status may or may not suffer from the switch to factory labor ; when status degradation does occur , it is not importantly ...
... agricultural peasant moving into the factory does not experience a dilution of his skills . His social status may or may not suffer from the switch to factory labor ; when status degradation does occur , it is not importantly ...
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... agricultural sectors of the economy to secondary or manufacturing sectors . The bulk of the potential labor supply is likely to be concentrated in agriculture in the preindustrial economy , and a considerable amount of this supply is ...
... agricultural sectors of the economy to secondary or manufacturing sectors . The bulk of the potential labor supply is likely to be concentrated in agriculture in the preindustrial economy , and a considerable amount of this supply is ...
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... agriculture or preindustrial com- merce , 28 or when opportunities for acquisition of status are blocked in the traditional structure - for example , the inaccessibility of landed estates because of nontransferability or limits on size ...
... agriculture or preindustrial com- merce , 28 or when opportunities for acquisition of status are blocked in the traditional structure - for example , the inaccessibility of landed estates because of nontransferability or limits on size ...
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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