kapferer_tailor — Kapferer tailor shop (1972)

Description

Interactions among 39 workers of a tailor shop in a town of Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia), observed by the anthropologist B. Kapferer over a period of ten months, during extended negotiations for higher wages. Interactions were recorded at two times, seven months apart, each over a period of one month. An abortive strike occurred after the first set of observations, and a successful strike after the second. This extended version of the data was distributed by T. Snijders with the SIENA software.

Two types of interaction were recorded:

sociational_1 and sociational_2: "sociational" (friendship and socio-emotional) interactions, at the first and second time, respectively. These are undirected.
instrumental_1 and instrumental_2: "instrumental" (work- and assistance-related) interactions, at the first and second time, respectively. These are directed.

Nodes are workers, and an edge connects two workers between whom an interaction of the given type was observed. In the directed networks, an edge $(i, j)$ corresponds to the entry in row $i$ and column $j$ of the source matrix; the meaning of the direction is not documented.

The networks have the following properties:

Nodes: status, the job category of the worker, in decreasing order of prestige according to a survey among employees (Kapferer 1972, pp. 55-59): 1: head tailor, 2: cutter, 3: line 1 tailor, 4: button machiner, 5: line 3 tailor, 6: ironer, 7: cotton boy, 8: line 2 tailor; lyashi, whether the worker is Lyashi, the most central individual; high_status, whether the worker has a high status job.

Tags

Social Offline Unweighted Metadata Temporal

Citation

B. Kapferer, "Strategy and Transaction in an African Factory: African Workers and Indian Management in a Zambian Town." Manchester University Press (1972) scholar.google.com

Upstream URL OK

https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~snijders/siena/kapfdata.htm

Networks

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Column legend

$\left<k\right>$: Mean degree
$\sigma_k$: Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$: Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$: Random walk mixing time
$r$: Degree assortativity
$c$: Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$: (Pseudo-) diameter
$S$: Relative size of the largest component
NPs: Node properties
EPs: Edge properties

Name	Nodes	Edges	$\left<k\right>$	$\sigma_k$	$\lambda_h$	$\tau$	$r$	$c$	$\oslash$	$S$	Kind	Mode	NPs	gt	GraphML	GML	csv
sociational_1	39	158	8.10	4.77	9.41	2.60	-0.18	0.39	4	1.00	Undirected	Unipartite	status lyashi high_status	1 KiB	2 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB
sociational_2	39	223	11.44	5.44	12.91	1.64	-0.05	0.47	3	1.00	Undirected	Unipartite	status lyashi high_status	1 KiB	2 KiB	1 KiB	2 KiB
instrumental_1	39	109	2.79	4.63	5.22	5.43	-0.08	0.27	5	0.90	Directed	Unipartite	status lyashi high_status	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB
instrumental_2	39	147	3.77	6.18	6.49	4.23	-0.08	0.30	5	0.87	Directed	Unipartite	status lyashi high_status	1 KiB	2 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB