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Development and Work Ethic in sub-Saharan Africa - Couverture souple

Van Eijk, Toon

 
9781409288688: Development and Work Ethic in sub-Saharan Africa
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1409288684 ISBN 13 : 9781409288688
Editeur : Lulu.com, 2009

Synopsis

Lagging economic development in Africa has been attributed to many causes, but the prevailing work ethic is never mentioned as a possible constraint to development in the formal literature. Obviously this is a politically and culturally sensitive issue. A discussion of the work ethic can easily degenerate into paternalistic and racist reflections. The author manages to discus it in a social-scientific manner without lapsing into platitudes. In this book development is seen as a process of long-term evolution in which people are central. Development is about changes in individual and collective behaviour. The work ethic is a crucial component of human behaviour. The work ethic is discussed in relation to the process of disciplining to labour in North-Western Europe, and in relation to issues such as gender, Christianity, the invention of the mechanical clock, the Industrial Revolution, geography, the state, the mimetic desire and the belief in a technological fix.

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Lagging economic development in Africa has been attributed to many causes, but the prevailing work ethic is never mentioned as a possible constraint to development in the formal literature. Obviously this is a politically and culturally sensitive issue. A discussion of the work ethic can easily degenerate into paternalistic and racist reflections. The author manages to discus it in a social-scientific manner without lapsing into platitudes. In this book development is seen as a process of long-term evolution in which people are central. Development is about changes in individual and collective behaviour. The work ethic is a crucial component of human behaviour. The work ethic is discussed in relation to the process of disciplining to labour in North-Western Europe, and in relation to issues such as gender, Christianity, the invention of the mechanical clock, the Industrial Revolution, geography, the state, the mimetic desire and the belief in a technological fix.

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Éditeur
Lulu.com
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1409288684
ISBN 13 
9781409288688
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
257
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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9789048411252: Development and Work Ethic in sub-Saharan Africa

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  9048411254 ISBN 13 :  9789048411252
Editeur : Uitgeverij Lecturium, 2010
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