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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... workers , least interest in skilled jobs was shown by those workers who indicated alternative job preferences . This suggests the common - sense observation that the level of aspirations is a function of the proximity to and awareness ...
... workers , least interest in skilled jobs was shown by those workers who indicated alternative job preferences . This suggests the common - sense observation that the level of aspirations is a function of the proximity to and awareness ...
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... workers was always sufficient to fill job openings . True enough , managers reported cases of workers who hesitated or refused proffered promotions to more skilled and responsible jobs . Such hesitancy flows in part from the high ...
... workers was always sufficient to fill job openings . True enough , managers reported cases of workers who hesitated or refused proffered promotions to more skilled and responsible jobs . Such hesitancy flows in part from the high ...
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... workers emerge as composites of the traditional and the modern industrial man . We had expected , perhaps naïvely , that there would be distinguishable " types " among the sample workers - those who would be very " traditional " and ...
... workers emerge as composites of the traditional and the modern industrial man . We had expected , perhaps naïvely , that there would be distinguishable " types " among the sample workers - those who would be very " traditional " and ...
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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