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Crisis and transformation : the kibbutz at century's end / Eliezer Ben-Rafael.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Israeli studiesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585065217
  • 9780585065212
  • 9780791432259
  • 0791432254
  • 9780791432266
  • 0791432262
Other title:
  • Kibbutz at century's end
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crisis and transformation.DDC classification:
  • 307.77/6 20
LOC classification:
  • HX742.2.A3 B467 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Kibbutz Identity -- 2. The Crisis -- 3. A Shattered Community -- 4. Kibbutz Capitalism Challenged -- 5. Kibbutz and Society -- 6. Behind the Transformation -- 7. Implementing Change -- 8. The Transformation of Identity -- App. 1. Correlation Analyses -- App. 2. Statistical Abstract -- The Kibbutzim in the 1990s.
Summary: This book examines kibbutz life following the Israeli economic crisis of 1985, focusing on the kibbutz's dramatic transformation from a well-defined social structure to a collective identified principally by its cultural preoccupations. It centers on the contradictions endemic to kibbutz identity. Ben-Rafael shows how the crisis brought together a general pro-change Zeitgeist with the interests of the kibbutz's stronger social segments and individuals to produce widespread changes and the fragmentation of kibbutz reality as a whole. The book's findings are based on a large-scale research investigation (1991-1994) headed up by Ben-Rafael that included twenty research studies and involved the participation of researchers from diverse social-science disciplines. The book also provides a statistical abstract and a comprehensive kibbutz bibliography.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-270) and index.

Print version record.

1. Kibbutz Identity -- 2. The Crisis -- 3. A Shattered Community -- 4. Kibbutz Capitalism Challenged -- 5. Kibbutz and Society -- 6. Behind the Transformation -- 7. Implementing Change -- 8. The Transformation of Identity -- App. 1. Correlation Analyses -- App. 2. Statistical Abstract -- The Kibbutzim in the 1990s.

This book examines kibbutz life following the Israeli economic crisis of 1985, focusing on the kibbutz's dramatic transformation from a well-defined social structure to a collective identified principally by its cultural preoccupations. It centers on the contradictions endemic to kibbutz identity. Ben-Rafael shows how the crisis brought together a general pro-change Zeitgeist with the interests of the kibbutz's stronger social segments and individuals to produce widespread changes and the fragmentation of kibbutz reality as a whole. The book's findings are based on a large-scale research investigation (1991-1994) headed up by Ben-Rafael that included twenty research studies and involved the participation of researchers from diverse social-science disciplines. The book also provides a statistical abstract and a comprehensive kibbutz bibliography.

English.

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