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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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