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

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Scholars bring their field experience and their expertise in sociology, social anthropology, economics, political science, and other areas to bear on an understanding of what happened to a model socialist construction: the rural village cooperative of Israel, the Moshav. A number of the chapters describe re-studies of communities their authors had examined a generation ago. The overall result is a diversity of views from the perspectives of individual community members, community organizations themselves, and expert interpreters, about the causes and consequences of a decline in economic cooperation concomitant with a decline in government support and a decline in the role of agriculture in most communities and in the national economy. The processes examined here have considerable importance for the understanding of transformations taking place in vast regions of the world.

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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.-AJL Newsletter
"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."-AJL Newsletter

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MOSHE SCHWARTZ is senior researcher at the Development Studies Center at Rehovot and also doing research at the Social Studies Center at the J. Blaustein Institute, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. SUSAN LEES is Acting Dean of the Social Science Division of Hunter College, City University of New York. GIDEON M. KRESSEL is Head of the Social Studies Center at the J. Blaustein Institute, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.