TY - BOOK ID - 77894081 TI - Crisis and transformation: the kibbutz at century's end PY - 1997 SN - 0585065217 9780585065212 9780791432259 0791432254 9780791432266 0791432262 0791432254 0791432262 079149635X PB - Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press DB - UniCat KW - Kibbutzim. KW - Political Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Socialism, Communism & Anarchism KW - Kibbutz settlements KW - Kibbutzes KW - KĖĢibutsim KW - Collective settlements KW - Economic order KW - Israel UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894081 AB - This book examines kibbutz life following the Israeli economic crisis of 1985, focusing on the kibbutz's dramatic transformation from a well-defined social structure to a collective identified principally by its cultural preoccupations. It centers on the contradictions endemic to kibbutz identity. Ben-Rafael shows how the crisis brought together a general pro-change Zeitgeist with the interests of the kibbutz's stronger social segments and individuals to produce widespread changes and the fragmentation of kibbutz reality as a whole. The book's findings are based on a large-scale research investigation (1991-1994) headed up by Ben-Rafael that included twenty research studies and involved the participation of researchers from diverse social-science disciplines. The book also provides a statistical abstract and a comprehensive kibbutz bibliography. ER -