Utopia in Zion: The Israeli Experience with Worker CooperativesSUNY Press, 01.01.1995 - 330 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Chapter 1 Worker Cooperatives in Israels Labor Economy | 13 |
19241992 with Robert Hanneman | 57 |
19331989 with Robert Hanneman | 96 |
Chapter 4 Democracy and Oligarchy in Israeli Worker Cooperatives | 129 |
Chapter 5 Israels Labor Economy between Crisis and Collapse | 164 |
Chapter 6 Do Israeli Worker Cooperatives Have a Future As Well As a Past? | 196 |
Appendix Israel Worker Cooperatives 19241993 | 219 |
Glossary | 281 |
Bibliography | 287 |
311 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
11 Passenger Transportation 12 Motor Freight 20 Electric Power 20 Misc 21 Deliver 22 Restaurant 41 Bakery 42 Wood 43 Printing 44 Metals 45 Building 47 Textiles 48 Food 9 Unknown Achdut Haavodah Afula Aviv P 45 Aviv S 20 Bakery M M&R Beersheba births Building M M&R bus cooperatives capital Chevrat Ovdim cooperatives in Israel economic effect Egged Electric Power ACWF Electrical M M&R firms formation of worker Freight M M&R Hadera hired labor Histadrut HPHM immigrants industry Israel Israel's worker cooperatives Israeli worker cooperatives Jaffa Jerusalem Post Jewish Kfar kibbutz kibbutzim Koor labor Zionist leaders leadership Likud Merkaz Hakooperatsia Mixed Transportation moshav moshavim N 3 Haifa Netanya organizational organizations Ovdei ownership Palestine Petach Tikvah political population recent deaths Ref6 Registrar of Cooperative Rehovot Rishon Lezion sector Service M M&R social Textiles M M&R tion tives utopian Viteles Wood M M&R workplace democracy Zionist