Samoan perceptions of work : moving up and moving around
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Samoan perceptions of work : moving up and moving around
(Immigrant communities & ethnic minorities in the United States & Canada, no. 72)
AMS Press, c1991
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-380) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The purpose of Dr Franco's study is "to show how Samoans perceive their work activities, and pattern meaningful work and non-work social transactions. Samoan work perceptions centre on two important social transactions: "tautra", service to chiefs and families, and "fa alavelave", mutual support during crucial life events". In his survey, Dr Franco demonstrates that "Samoans are adapting to overseas labour markets (particularly Hawaiian) through culturally distinctive work perceptions and patterns. "Tautra" and "fa alavelave", like the Korean "kye", (the rotating credit association) are unique social transactions powerfully influencing work and adaptation. By examining Samoan perceptions and patterns of work it is (the author's) goal to identify unique alternative competencies'...rather than deficiencies in Samoan workers." Because of the nature of the subject, the Samoan, additional material deals wit native customs (eg. tattooing), crops, (yam, banana, coconut, breadfruit) and their traditional cultivation,the Samoan response to military work, cannery work, commercial agriculture, and government employment.
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