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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... associated with any particular type of process . The data imply that settled agri- culture and centralized government involve a shift away from volun- tary forms and toward custodial organizations , rather than contractual . Although ...
... associated with any particular type of process . The data imply that settled agri- culture and centralized government involve a shift away from volun- tary forms and toward custodial organizations , rather than contractual . Although ...
Page 148
... associated status with landowner- ship , and in which wealth has been accumulated in that form , should be of considerable interest . The men who originally stated that they would not return to agri- culture under any condition ...
... associated status with landowner- ship , and in which wealth has been accumulated in that form , should be of considerable interest . The men who originally stated that they would not return to agri- culture under any condition ...
Page 205
... associated with urbanization , leads to more frequent and intense contact with higher standards of living . Second , the goods and services bought with the new income may be desired less for their functional value than for the prestige ...
... associated with urbanization , leads to more frequent and intense contact with higher standards of living . Second , the goods and services bought with the new income may be desired less for their functional value than for the prestige ...
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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