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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. CONTENTS
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. TABLES
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. FIGURES
  2. p. ix
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  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. pp. 1-12
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  1. 1. WORKER COOPERATIVES IN ISRAEL'S LABOR ECONOMY
  2. pp. 13-56
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  1. 2. THE FORMATION AND DISSOLUTION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES IN ISRAEL,1924-1992
  2. pp. 57-95
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  1. 3. THE USE OF HIRED LABOR IN ISRAELI WORKER COOPERATIVES,1933-1989
  2. pp. 96-128
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  1. 4. DEMOCRACY AND OLIGARCHY IN ISRAELI WORKER COOPERATIVES
  2. pp. 129-163
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  1. 5. ISRAEL'S LABOR ECONOMY BETWEEN CRISIS AND COLLAPSE
  2. pp. 164-195
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  1. 6. Do ISRAELI WORKER COOPERATIVE SHAVE A FUTURE As WELL As A PAST?
  2. pp. 196-218
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  1. APPENDIX: Israeli Worker Cooperatives 1924--1993
  2. pp. 219-280
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  1. GLOSSARY
  2. pp. 281-286
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  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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  1. INDEX
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