the local environ- ment." For example, in some less-developed countries, workers refuse to increase their productivity for fear of increasing unemployment. Indian mill hands during the 1920s refused to operate more spindles because they did not want to deny jobs to unemployed countrymen. Indian workers, wrote one American observer, "cannot be persuaded" to work harder "any exhortation, ambition, or the opportunity to increase their earnings."
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