The Renewal of the Kibbutz
From Reform to Transformation
Raymond Russell author Robert Hanneman author Shlomo Getz author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Published:1st May '15
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We think of the kibbutz as a place for communal living and working. Members work, reside, and eat together, and share income “from each according to ability, to each according to need.” But in the late 1980s the kibbutzim decided that they needed to change. Reforms-moderate at first-were put in place. Members could work outside of the organization, but wages went to the collective. Apartments could be expanded, but housing remained kibbutz-owned. In 1995, change accelerated. Kibbutzim began to pay salaries based on the market value of a member’s work. As a result of such changes, the “renewed” kibbutz emerged. By 2010, 75 percent of Israel’s 248 nonreligious kibbutzim fit into this new category.
The Renewal of the Kibbutz explores the waves of reforms since 1990. Looking through the lens of organizational theories that predict how open or closed a group will be to change, the authors find that less successful kibbutzim were most receptive to reform, and reforms then spread through imitation from the economically weaker kibbutzim to the strong.
"Providing an environment where early Zionists could live and work in a democratic and collective manner, the kibbutz is fundamental to Israeli society. This carefully researched and informative book will appeal to readers interested in democratic collectivism and Israeli society. Highly recommended."
(Choice) "Russell, Hanneman, and Getz have written the first evidence-based overview of changes that kibbutzim have gone through in the last thirty years. This will be the book on the kibbutz that gets to the heart of what the kibbutz experiment meant." - Joseph R. Blasi (J. Robert Beyster Professor, Rutgers University) "Providing an environment where early Zionists could live and work in a democratic and collective manner, the kibbutz is fundamental to Israeli society. This carefully researched and informative book will appeal to readers interested in democratic collectivism and Israeli society. Highly recommended."
(Choice) "Russell, Hanneman, and Getz have written the first evidence-based overview of changes that kibbutzim have gone through in the last thirty years. This will be the book on the kibbutz that gets to the heart of what the kibbutz experiment meant." - Joseph R. Blasi (J. Robert Beyster Professor, Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780813565538
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196 pages
First Paperback Edition