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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... Involvement of Workers in the Industrial Labor Market 138 Entry and Continuity in the Market 138 Motives and Facilitators of Entry 140 Former Agricultural Workers 144 Permanence of Involvement in Industrial Employment 149 Participation ...
... Involvement of Workers in the Industrial Labor Market 138 Entry and Continuity in the Market 138 Motives and Facilitators of Entry 140 Former Agricultural Workers 144 Permanence of Involvement in Industrial Employment 149 Participation ...
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... involved . These processes of social trans- formation that accompany economic change demand attention and justify theoretical and practical concern for the performance and acceptance of behaviors consistent with that transformation ...
... involved . These processes of social trans- formation that accompany economic change demand attention and justify theoretical and practical concern for the performance and acceptance of behaviors consistent with that transformation ...
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... involved in the use of differing criteria of performance in various sectors of the labor force . This subject is touched on at number of points in this volume , but without final resolution . The fact is that it is easier to analyze the ...
... involved in the use of differing criteria of performance in various sectors of the labor force . This subject is touched on at number of points in this volume , but without final resolution . The fact is that it is easier to analyze the ...
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... involved and the means of achieving this goal include economic change , the concept of economic develop- ment can be interpreted as both an end and as a means to that end . It is precisely this duality of the concept of economic ...
... involved and the means of achieving this goal include economic change , the concept of economic develop- ment can be interpreted as both an end and as a means to that end . It is precisely this duality of the concept of economic ...
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... involved . It is argued that separation makes efficient communication difficult . The social distance separating the newly created positions is said to introduce a sense of conflict where none should exist . An alternative ...
... involved . It is argued that separation makes efficient communication difficult . The social distance separating the newly created positions is said to introduce a sense of conflict where none should exist . An alternative ...
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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