Gideon Kressel, Moshe M. Schwartz

Rural Cooperatives in Socialist Utopia

Thirty Years of Moshav Development in Israel
Herausgeber: Schwartz, Moshe M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Scholars bring their field experience and their expertise in sociology, social anthropology, economics, political science, and other areas to bear on an understanding of what happened to a model socialist construction: the rural village cooperative of Israel, the Moshav. A number of the chapters describe re-studies of communities their authors had examined a generation ago. The overall result is a diversity of views from the perspectives of individual community members, community organizations themselves, and expert interpreters, about the causes and consequences of a decline in economic cooperation concomitant with a decline in government support and a decline in the role of agriculture in most communities and in the national economy. The processes examined here have considerable importance for the understanding of transformations taking place in vast regions of the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780275953096
• ISBN-10: 0275953092
• Artikelnr.: 25565685

Autorenporträt

MOSHE SCHWARTZ is senior researcher at the Development Studies Center at Rehovot and also doing research at the Social Studies Center at the J. Blaustein Institute, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. SUSAN LEES is Acting Dean of the Social Science Division of Hunter College, City University of New York. GIDEON M. KRESSEL is Head of the Social Studies Center at the J. Blaustein Institute, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface The Moshav: An Introduction by Susan H. Lees Organizational
Environment: Beginning and Later Development Moshav and Kibbutz in the
Anthropology and Sociology of Israel by Moshe Schwartz The Effects of
Public Financial Assistance on the Management of Moshav Economic Affairs by
Moshe Schwartz and Neal Sherman The Settlement Department Unsettled by
Shlomo Fox Socialism, the Moshav, and the Water Crisis by Susan H. Lees
Communities in Change Looking Backward with a Forward View, Stories That
Make Sense by Esther Schely-Newman Change or Renewal? Israel's First Moshav
Ovdim in a New Political and Economic Order by Naomi Nevo A Note on Even
Yosef in the Early 1990s by Harvey E. Goldberg Generations Divorced: The
Mutation of Familism among Atlas Mountains Immigrants in Israel by Moshe
Shokeid From Village to Suburb: From Cooperation to Individualism by
Leonard Mars "He Who Stays in Agriculture is not a Freier," The Spirit of
Competition among Members of the Moshav Is Eroded When Unskilled Arab Labor
Enters the Scene by Gideon M. Kressel Moshav Ranen Is Going Back to
Agriculture by David Sivan From Generation to Generation and from Country
to Country The Moshav Overseas: Revisiting Issues Rather than Settlements
by Yair Levi The Decooperativization of Israel's Moshavim, 1985-1994 by
Moshe Schwartz Rural Cooperation and the Stages of Economic Growth by
Raanan Weitz