Labor Commitment and Social Change in Developing AreasSocial Science Research Council, 1960 - 378 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 38
... expects and desires the exploitation that traditional authority would bring into the fac- tory . Many of these observers believe that the maintenance of tradi- tional authority structures avoids the dehumanization of work and workers ...
... expects and desires the exploitation that traditional authority would bring into the fac- tory . Many of these observers believe that the maintenance of tradi- tional authority structures avoids the dehumanization of work and workers ...
Page 45
... expected in any event . The very diversity of occupations provides the basis for one class of market impurities — the existence of noncompeting markets over long periods . This phenomenon is buttressed by the training time required 12 ...
... expected in any event . The very diversity of occupations provides the basis for one class of market impurities — the existence of noncompeting markets over long periods . This phenomenon is buttressed by the training time required 12 ...
Page 75
... expected to apply , but this may be a slow and uneven process that does not bar the possibility that the maintenance of commitment to political groups may entail a succession of civil disorders inimical to economic develop- ment . In ...
... expected to apply , but this may be a slow and uneven process that does not bar the possibility that the maintenance of commitment to political groups may entail a succession of civil disorders inimical to economic develop- ment . In ...
Page 78
... expected to outlast the job spans of its members , and impermanent if not . If its objectives are ex- plicitly limited to material productive ends , the organization is deemed specific ; it is diffuse to the extent that other ends are ...
... expected to outlast the job spans of its members , and impermanent if not . If its objectives are ex- plicitly limited to material productive ends , the organization is deemed specific ; it is diffuse to the extent that other ends are ...
Page 80
... expected to be based on self - defined self - interest , and no purely social sanctions are manifestly attached to nonparticipation . This does not mean that severe personal deprivations cannot result from failure to participate , but ...
... expected to be based on self - defined self - interest , and no purely social sanctions are manifestly attached to nonparticipation . This does not mean that severe personal deprivations cannot result from failure to participate , but ...
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achievement African agricultural analysis associated Baganda become behavior Bombay Cantel capital cash crops cultural demand differential discipline East Africa economic development economic growth employers function goals groups important income countries 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 land M. N. Srinivas machine managerial ment mobility modern Mossi nationalists newly developing areas Niger Nigeria nomic nonindustrial norms occupational operation opportunities organization participation pattern percent plant political entrepreneurs population position preindustrial prestige problems process of commitment production Puerto Rico recruitment relations relatively rewards role rural sector situation skilled social system status stratification structure tend tion town trade unions traditional transition tribal turnover types Uganda underdeveloped areas unskilled urban values wage labor workers Yatenga