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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... Machines The relations between worker and machine in a factory system of production are frequently misrepresented , particularly in the popular finding that workers ' acts are machine - determined.13 Technological determinism frequently ...
... Machines The relations between worker and machine in a factory system of production are frequently misrepresented , particularly in the popular finding that workers ' acts are machine - determined.13 Technological determinism frequently ...
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... machine , the immediate " lead " comes from the ma- chine . Since we are here concerned with the latter stage of these relations , the following presentation deals with an essentially machine- determined pattern of behavior . It may be ...
... machine , the immediate " lead " comes from the ma- chine . Since we are here concerned with the latter stage of these relations , the following presentation deals with an essentially machine- determined pattern of behavior . It may be ...
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... machine - structured work as personal and social degradation . If so , this phenomenon represents a major barrier to commitment . The extent and permanence of sub- ordination to the machine in industrial societies are therefore of ...
... machine - structured work as personal and social degradation . If so , this phenomenon represents a major barrier to commitment . The extent and permanence of sub- ordination to the machine in industrial societies are therefore of ...
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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