This work studies urbanization in the Third World, emphasizing industrialization through the use of case studies. It examines the historical demography of India's urbanization; problems of infrastructure management; and the recruitment, migration, and reproduction of the labor force.

Sources of population data -- Population distribution -- Urban-rural distribution -- Population growth -- Age-sex composition -- Literacy and education -- Marital status -- Economic composition -- Fertility -- Mortality and life table -- Migration -- Population theories --...

From the preface: Seven of these studies in this volume are based on an enumeration of the beduin population of the Negev which was performed as part of a census of the population of Palestine, intended to be carried out in the year 1946.