Work in traditional and modern society

Hypothesis

Neither corporate businesses nor occupationally based contractual situations exist in preindustrial work to any extent. Such as exist are either occupationally based or at least job specific. The two structural types (characterized as developmental dead ends), 'ascriptive core-ascriptive group employee' and 'mutual associations' do not progress beyond the employer-specific level. The structural form, 'ascriptive employer-individual employee', however, does appear to be developmentally fertile (78)