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 206
... income elasticity estimates are not particularly illuminating in the context of industri- alization , however , since so many determinants of consumption other than income are also changing . It is entirely possible that these other ...
... income elasticity estimates are not particularly illuminating in the context of industri- alization , however , since so many determinants of consumption other than income are also changing . It is entirely possible that these other ...
Page 242
... income derived from cotton and coffee accounted for some 60 percent of farmers ' incomes.1 Farm incomes account for the greater share of the income of all Africans and of the estimated national income . Almost every activity other than ...
... income derived from cotton and coffee accounted for some 60 percent of farmers ' incomes.1 Farm incomes account for the greater share of the income of all Africans and of the estimated national income . Almost every activity other than ...
Page 245
... income can always be greater than his wages if he does not give up his farm . The proportion of his income that is derived from his farm depends , of course , on the relation between wages and farm income . Where land is fairly ...
... income can always be greater than his wages if he does not give up his farm . The proportion of his income that is derived from his farm depends , of course , on the relation between wages and farm income . Where land is fairly ...
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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