Rural Cooperatives in Socialist Utopia Thirty Years of Moshav Development in Israel

Subjects:

• Sociology » Rural Studies
• Sociology » Sociological Theory
• History » Middle Eastern History
• Political Science » Political Philosophy

Reviews:

• Chapters have appropriate tables, charts, and statistical models, and are well written. Most of the chapters have extensive bibliographies, providing serious students with the opportunity to expand their knowledge.
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Table of Contents:

• 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