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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... percent said they liked it better . Their job histories after they left agriculture show that the break was a ... Percent Number Percent Men employed in agriculture after 1945 and with complete job histories 27 15.7 145 84.3 Men employed ...
... percent said they liked it better . Their job histories after they left agriculture show that the break was a ... Percent Number Percent Men employed in agriculture after 1945 and with complete job histories 27 15.7 145 84.3 Men employed ...
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... percent of the average number of production workers employed during 1953 ( average number employed on the first day of each month ) . Firms whose turnover rates range through 40 percent are considered stable ; those with rates of 41 to ...
... percent of the average number of production workers employed during 1953 ( average number employed on the first day of each month ) . Firms whose turnover rates range through 40 percent are considered stable ; those with rates of 41 to ...
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... Percent No. Percent No. Percent No. Percent No. Percent No. Higher wages 48 82.8 35 56.5 6 24.0 7 36.8 12 85.7 4 Less physical effort 18 31.0 26 41.9 17 68.0 10 52.6 9 64.3 4 Cleaner work 7 12.1 17 27.4 6 24.0 7 36.8 4 28.6 3 More ...
... Percent No. Percent No. Percent No. Percent No. Percent No. Higher wages 48 82.8 35 56.5 6 24.0 7 36.8 12 85.7 4 Less physical effort 18 31.0 26 41.9 17 68.0 10 52.6 9 64.3 4 Cleaner work 7 12.1 17 27.4 6 24.0 7 36.8 4 28.6 3 More ...
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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