The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 1804119261

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-188010

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Moreland, William Harrison http://d-nb.info/gnd/172263670

Title:: The agrarian system of Moslem India

Edition:: 2. ed. Reissue (d. Ausg. Cambridge) 1929; [Reprint]

Place of publication:: Delhi

Publisher:: Oriental Books, Munshiram Manoharlal

Year of publication:: 1968

Scope:: XVII, 296 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. The 13th and 14th centuries

Collection:: Economics Books

XXV THE APPLICANT’S POINT OF VIEW No study of employment psychology would be complete without a discussion of the applicant’s point of view. The consideration of this topic will be particularly apt at this time if, in the minds of some readers, the fore going chapters have dealt with the applicant in a some what artificial manner. It is very easy to talk about an applicant as though he were a mere bit of mechanism, an inanimate pawn in the game of industry. In order to counteract this tendency, let us imagine ourselves for the time being in the position of an applicant entering an employment office. Let us attempt to adopt the actual feelings and mental processes of the individual in search of a job. The question which now suggests itself is: What kind of applicant shall we be? Shall we apply as expert mechanics, draftsmen, or accountants, or shall we apply for the work of ordinary laborers, work which requires neither skill nor education? Shall we apply as Americans, fluent in the English language and at home in American customs and manners, or shall we be Italian or Russian applicants, unable to speak any but the most broken English and still more helpless in writing the language? Shall we apply as men or as women? Shall we be appli cants for factory jobs or office positions? These questions could be continued indefinitely; but the few characters which we have suggested will indicate at once the com- 361

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