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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... agricultural workers , not those marginal to that work force . Further evidence that dire economic need was not the force com- pelling these men to abandon agriculture is found in their specific reasons for quitting ( Table 5 ) . Only ...
... agricultural workers , not those marginal to that work force . Further evidence that dire economic need was not the force com- pelling these men to abandon agriculture is found in their specific reasons for quitting ( Table 5 ) . Only ...
Page 147
... agricultural workers . They also reported relatively longer years of agricultural employment , generally over 11 years . Presumably many of these men were not looking upon a return to agriculture as an active career . Rather , a ...
... agricultural workers . They also reported relatively longer years of agricultural employment , generally over 11 years . Presumably many of these men were not looking upon a return to agriculture as an active career . Rather , a ...
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... agricultural sector would seem attrac- tive or , conversely , that the adjustment to industrial discipline would not be adequately compensated . However , even if the lowest industrial wage rates did not compare favorably with some ...
... agricultural sector would seem attrac- tive or , conversely , that the adjustment to industrial discipline would not be adequately compensated . However , even if the lowest industrial wage rates did not compare favorably with some ...
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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