{"product_id":"development-and-work-ethic-in-sub-saharan-africa-9781409288688","title":"Development and Work Ethic in sub-Saharan Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Toon Van Eijk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLagging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lulu.com","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47609847447703,"sku":"9781409288688","price":1441.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781409288688.webp?v=1775060306","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/development-and-work-ethic-in-sub-saharan-africa-9781409288688","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}