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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... specific performance requirements of workers and also serve to place work within a system of social relationships . Criteria of Judgment Discussion of commitment in terms of performance of work and other roles may seem spuriously easy ...
... specific performance requirements of workers and also serve to place work within a system of social relationships . Criteria of Judgment Discussion of commitment in terms of performance of work and other roles may seem spuriously easy ...
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... specific content of this goal , it undoubtedly in- cludes a certain minimum economic standard , particularly in regard to the material conditions of life . The type of change required , then , is to a considerable extent change in the ...
... specific content of this goal , it undoubtedly in- cludes a certain minimum economic standard , particularly in regard to the material conditions of life . The type of change required , then , is to a considerable extent change in the ...
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... specific locus of action . This locus cannot be limited properly to a particular form of work organization , such as the factory system , for two reasons : ( 1 ) Social systems display some degree of functional inter- dependence and ...
... specific locus of action . This locus cannot be limited properly to a particular form of work organization , such as the factory system , for two reasons : ( 1 ) Social systems display some degree of functional inter- dependence and ...
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... specific to a job and to the organization of that job . The subcontexts are : A. Workers and Machines : The pattern of interaction between human and nonhuman disposable resources as they are typically utilized in a process of factory ...
... specific to a job and to the organization of that job . The subcontexts are : A. Workers and Machines : The pattern of interaction between human and nonhuman disposable resources as they are typically utilized in a process of factory ...
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... specific commitment . This is one implication of the con- ception of a functionally integrated industrial system . Interdependence and Expanding Commitment Functional interdependence ) implies that the various loci of commit- ment ...
... specific commitment . This is one implication of the con- ception of a functionally integrated industrial system . Interdependence and Expanding Commitment Functional interdependence ) implies that the various loci of commit- ment ...
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achievement African agricultural analysis associated authority Baganda become behavior Cantel 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 machine managerial ment mobility modern Moore Mossi nationalists newly developing areas Niger Nigeria nomic nonindustrial norms occupational operation opportunities orientations 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 University Press urban values wage labor workers Yatenga