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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Page 48
... rural districts today represent the world's worst slums . Although in the long run a shift to manufacturing may mean ... rural districts . However , this " solution " is liable to create other problems . Because few rural areas in ...
... rural districts today represent the world's worst slums . Although in the long run a shift to manufacturing may mean ... rural districts . However , this " solution " is liable to create other problems . Because few rural areas in ...
Page 49
... rural state might well encourage the maintenance of a normative system hostile to industrial labor . How- ever , the movement of factories to the location of potential labor sup- plies , where feasible , represents an economic advantage ...
... rural state might well encourage the maintenance of a normative system hostile to industrial labor . How- ever , the movement of factories to the location of potential labor sup- plies , where feasible , represents an economic advantage ...
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... Rural 70 Current residence Urban 73 Rural 27 Industry of father's job at the time of respondent's first job Manufacturing 5 Agriculture 32 52 Industry of respondent's first job Men Women Manufacturing 22 Agriculture Manufacturing 55 ...
... Rural 70 Current residence Urban 73 Rural 27 Industry of father's job at the time of respondent's first job Manufacturing 5 Agriculture 32 52 Industry of respondent's first job Men Women Manufacturing 22 Agriculture Manufacturing 55 ...
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... rural and urban labor forces . If any differences exist in the predisposition of rural and urban workers to enter the industrial sector and to become committed to it , these must be sought in other cultural or environmental ...
... rural and urban labor forces . If any differences exist in the predisposition of rural and urban workers to enter the industrial sector and to become committed to it , these must be sought in other cultural or environmental ...
Page 147
... rural proletariat possessing very narrow skills and experience . It is likely that they would be quite incapable of independent cultivation . The versatile workers formerly employed on small productive units might more reasonably be ...
... rural proletariat possessing very narrow skills and experience . It is likely that they would be quite incapable of independent cultivation . The versatile workers formerly employed on small productive units might more reasonably be ...
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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