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The Renewal of the Kibbutz: From Reform to Transformation
Author(s): Raymond Russell (Author), Robert Hanneman (Author), Shlomo Getz (Author)
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date: 15 May 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 0813560764
- ISBN-13: 9780813560762
Book Description
This book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
(Choice) “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) “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)
About the Author
ROBERT HANNEMAN is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He has authored four books, including State Intervention in Medical Care: Consequences for Britain, France, Sweden, and the United States.
SHLOMO GETZ is a research associate at the Institute for Kibbutz Research at the University of Haifa and a senior lecturer at Emek Yezreel College in Israel. He has authored or coauthored numerous publications, including The Kibbutz in an Era of Changes and The Kibbutz: The Risk of Enduring (both written in Hebrew).
