Kapferer Tailor Shop

Description

Kapferer Tailor Shop

Background

Bruce Kapferer (1972) observed interactions in a
tailor shop in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia)
over a period of ten months. His focus was the
changing patterns of alliance among workers
during extended negotiations for higher wages.

The matrices represent two different types of interaction,
recorded at two different times (seven months apart) over
a period of one month. TI1 and TI2 record the
"instrumental" (work- and assistance-related) interactions
at the two times; TS1 and TS2 the "sociational" (friendship,
socioemotional) interactions.

The data are particularly interesting since an abortive strike occurred after the first set of observations, and a successful strike took place after the second.

References

• Kapferer B. (1972). Strategy and transaction in an African factory. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

History

Data originally made publicly available in UCINET.