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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... STATUS SYSTEMS 13 THE MOBILITY OF LABOR by Walter Elkan and Lloyd A. Fallers 238 Wage Labor in Historical Perspective 238 Town Laborers in England 239 Is the Experience Repeated ? 240 The Economy of Uganda 241 Mobility and Type of Job ...
... STATUS SYSTEMS 13 THE MOBILITY OF LABOR by Walter Elkan and Lloyd A. Fallers 238 Wage Labor in Historical Perspective 238 Town Laborers in England 239 Is the Experience Repeated ? 240 The Economy of Uganda 241 Mobility and Type of Job ...
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... STATUS SYSTEMS by Melvin M. Tumin 272 275 277 Relevance of Stratification Theory 277 Industrialization and Stratification 280 Stratification and Commitment : Objective and Subjective Aspects 284 Role Image and Commitment 285 Democratic ...
... STATUS SYSTEMS by Melvin M. Tumin 272 275 277 Relevance of Stratification Theory 277 Industrialization and Stratification 280 Stratification and Commitment : Objective and Subjective Aspects 284 Role Image and Commitment 285 Democratic ...
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... status , political orientations , and social goals are critically involved . These processes of social trans- formation that accompany economic change demand attention and justify theoretical and practical concern for the performance ...
... status , political orientations , and social goals are critically involved . These processes of social trans- formation that accompany economic change demand attention and justify theoretical and practical concern for the performance ...
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... status in a social system ; it leaves open the question of their coherence and integra- tion , as Singer suggests ( Chapter 14 ) . Social Contexts of Commitment Three major contexts can be distinguished with respect to the loci of ...
... status in a social system ; it leaves open the question of their coherence and integra- tion , as Singer suggests ( Chapter 14 ) . Social Contexts of Commitment Three major contexts can be distinguished with respect to the loci of ...
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... status achievement— such as traditional Chinese society - presumably would encourage ready acceptance of the comparable norms applicable to an industrial labor force.8 Transitional phenomena refer primarily to the agencies and processes ...
... status achievement— such as traditional Chinese society - presumably would encourage ready acceptance of the comparable norms applicable to an industrial labor force.8 Transitional phenomena refer primarily to the agencies and processes ...
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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