Abstract
The social organization of industrial systems has been a topic of major interest among social scientists for two decades. While anthropologists have been concerned with the consequences of industrial growth in underdeveloped areas of the world, by and large the locus of sociological research on industrial organization has been the United States. However, sociologists have given particular attention to the large bureaucratized industrial systems, rather than small or loosely organized industries.1 Anthropologists, as well as sociologists, have often assumed that modern industrial systems, to the extent that they strive for efficiency, are based on a rational allocation of tasks and functions in terms of the technical organization of productive means. In line with this assumption, it has been maintained that kinship plays a rather insignificant role in the patterning of modern industrial relations, particularly in Western societies.
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