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 249
... town until they have saved sufficient money to buy a substantial piece of land or to start a business of some kind , usually in a rural area . Wage work in town tends to be a phase rather than a way of life , and ties with the ...
... town until they have saved sufficient money to buy a substantial piece of land or to start a business of some kind , usually in a rural area . Wage work in town tends to be a phase rather than a way of life , and ties with the ...
Page 256
... towns draw workers are not agricultural wage laborers , but peasant farmers with rights of one kind or another in the land . The evidence seems to us to indicate that they will include town labor in the pattern of their lives up to the ...
... towns draw workers are not agricultural wage laborers , but peasant farmers with rights of one kind or another in the land . The evidence seems to us to indicate that they will include town labor in the pattern of their lives up to the ...
Page 322
... town of nearly 21,000 persons - 14,900 Africans , 5,100 Asians , and 800 Europeans - Jinja presents the features typical of the emerging African industrial town . It is a center for migrants ( more than 80 tribes are represented ) ...
... town of nearly 21,000 persons - 14,900 Africans , 5,100 Asians , and 800 Europeans - Jinja presents the features typical of the emerging African industrial town . It is a center for migrants ( more than 80 tribes are represented ) ...
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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