Labor Commitment and Social Change in Developing AreasWilbert Ellis Moore, Arnold S. Feldman Bloomsbury Academic, 1982 M07 2 - 396 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 114
... Niger Project decided to resettle the Mossi as a permanent labor force rather than to rely on migratory labor , it failed to perceive the cultural aspects of the alternatives from which it had to choose . The result was a decision least ...
... Niger Project decided to resettle the Mossi as a permanent labor force rather than to rely on migratory labor , it failed to perceive the cultural aspects of the alternatives from which it had to choose . The result was a decision least ...
Page 115
... Niger Project these compound dwell- ings each contain a dozen or so houses and are separated from one an- other by wide avenues and a central square . In contrast with the Yatenga , however , the workers living within these dwellings ...
... Niger Project these compound dwell- ings each contain a dozen or so houses and are separated from one an- other by wide avenues and a central square . In contrast with the Yatenga , however , the workers living within these dwellings ...
Page 120
... Niger Irrigation Project , authority within each house- hold was vested in its eldest male member in accordance with Mossi tradition . With time , however , the younger members of households , especially those born at the Niger Project ...
... Niger Irrigation Project , authority within each house- hold was vested in its eldest male member in accordance with Mossi tradition . With time , however , the younger members of households , especially those born at the Niger Project ...
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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