OBJECTIVE: In the absence of an adequate vital registration system in Ghana, the Navrongo demographic surveillance system (NDSS) established in 1993 presents a viable alternative to monitor, in a poor rural district, the UN Millennium Development Goal on maternal health (MDG) of reducing...

Industrial sociologists and psychologists have often paid little more than scant attention to the actual work of the people they have been studying. The literature is full of brief comments about the work situation which lack both data and an analytical framework. This deficiency is surprising....

‘Automation’ is a familiar yet ambiguously defined aspect of modern industrial life. It is indeed the advanced state of technological achievement in certain branches of highly mechanized manufacture and fabrication. It is also an absolute in the production process — the final phase of...