Utopia in Zion : The Israeli Experience with Worker Cooperatives / Raymond Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Raymond, 1946-

Series:

SUNY series in Israeli studies Utopia in Zion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooperation--Israel.

Cooperation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 330 p. :) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A historical, sociological, and economic analysis of urban worker cooperatives in contemporary Israel.Although less famous than Israel's cooperative agricultural settlements, the kibbutzim and moshavim, Israeli urban worker cooperatives have an equally long and rich history. Well over a thousand such organizations have been established in what is now Israel since early in this century. This book provides a historical, social, and economic analysis of contemporary urban worker cooperatives, focusing on processes affecting their formation and dissolution, their use of nonmember labor, and the evolution of their democratic decision-making practices over time.Raymond Russell examines these cooperatives for the light they can shed on worker ownerships and worker cooperatives in general, and on Israeli society in particular. Applying a range of sociological and economic theories to examine the dynamics of these organizations over time, he finds that both their formation and their later development have been strongly influenced by the uniquely utopian social and economic conditions that prevailed in Jewish Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

INTRODUCTION

1. WORKER COOPERATIVES IN ISRAEL'S LABOR ECONOMY

2. THE FORMATION AND DISSOLUTION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES IN ISRAEL, 1924-1992

3. THE USE OF HIRED LABOR IN ISRAELI WORKER COOPERATIVES, 1933-1989

4. DEMOCRACY AND OLIGARCHY IN ISRAELI WORKER COOPERATIVES

5. ISRAEL'S LABOR ECONOMY BETWEEN CRISIS AND COLLAPSE

6. Do ISRAELI WORKER COOPERATIVES HAVE A FUTURE As WELL As A PAST?

APPENDIX Israeli Worker Cooperatives, 1924-1993

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-310) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438418391

1438418396

OCLC:

794701362