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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... expected to like factory work " very much " even before they had taken their first factory jobs . Only 7 percent said that they had expected to like it " very little " or " not at all , " although this figure may understate the facts ...
... expected to like factory work " very much " even before they had taken their first factory jobs . Only 7 percent said that they had expected to like it " very little " or " not at all , " although this figure may understate the facts ...
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... EXPECTED To Like Respondents mentioning Number Percent Conditions workers expected to like Men Women Men Women Wages 256 273 47 54 Opportunity to see and learn new things 264 203 49 40 Physical effort required 172 206 32 Stability of ...
... EXPECTED To Like Respondents mentioning Number Percent Conditions workers expected to like Men Women Men Women Wages 256 273 47 54 Opportunity to see and learn new things 264 203 49 40 Physical effort required 172 206 32 Stability of ...
Page 245
... expected future yield of their farms by selling them . Increases in wages designed to make it possible for men to support families are likely to be of little avail . The increase in wages is much more likely to be regarded as a welcome ...
... expected future yield of their farms by selling them . Increases in wages designed to make it possible for men to support families are likely to be of little avail . The increase in wages is much more likely to be regarded as a welcome ...
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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