Rural Development and Labor Adjustment in the Mississippi Delta and Ozarks of Arkansas: A Summary Report. Bulletin 795.

Autor/inn/en	Grinstead, Mary Jo; und weitere
Institution	Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Fayetteville.; Economic Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC. Economic Development Div.
Titel	Rural Development and Labor Adjustment in the Mississippi Delta and Ozarks of Arkansas: A Summary Report. Bulletin 795.
Quelle	(1975), (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Economic Development; Economic Factors; Industrial Personnel; Industrialization; Labor Conditions; Labor Force; Poverty Areas; Rural Areas; Rural Development; Rural Population; Supervisory Methods; Vocational Adjustment; Work Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Ökonomischer Faktor; Industrialisation; Industrialisierung; Arbeitsbedingungen; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Landbevölkerung; Personalanpassung; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung
Abstract	This report is a blend or summary of six reports that dealt with rural development, especially labor adjustment, in the Ozark and Delta regions of Arkansas. The studies were initiated mainly at the request of policy makers in the Delta and Ozarks areas of Arkansas. Several writers have suggested that "culture of poverty" is a major deterrent to upward job mobility of the economically deprived. Responses to scales, and related questions, by low income groups in both regions gave little support to the "culture of poverty" explanation. Rather, tangible factors such as lack of suitable transportation and poor health were clearly evident. The phenomenon of high labor turnover was also clearly evident. Efforts to explain the high rates were applied to a sample of persons in the Delta. Test questions, formulated by Herzberg in the management field, were used to see what was causing job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The finding was that preconditions for employee satisfaction were available, but the motivators (praise, recognition, etc.) that release the better and best efforts of employees seemed to be at a low level. The evidence pointed to the need for consultants to work especially with supervisors of factory workers to create a work environment with improved social aspects. Rural industrialization cannot be viewed as a cure-all for the poverty problems of rural areas. (Author/JM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC