RAYMOND RUSSELL is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Sharing Ownership in the Workplace and Utopia in Zion: The Israeli Experience with Worker Cooperatives.ROBERT HANNEMAN is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He has authored four books, including State Intervention in Medical Care: Consequences for Britain, France, Sweden, and the United States.SHLOMO GETZ is a research associate at the Institute for Kibbutz Research at the University of Haifa and a senior lecturer at Emek Yezreel College in Israel. He has authored or coauthored numerous publications, including The Kibbutz in an Era of Changes and The Kibbutz: The Risk of Enduring (both written in Hebrew).

"Providing an environment where early Zionists could live and work in a democratic and collective manner, the kibbutz is fundamental to Israeli society. This carefully researched and informative book will appeal to readers interested in democratic collectivism and Israeli society. Highly recommended."(Choice) "Russell, Hanneman, and Getz have written the first evidence-based overview of changes that kibbutzim have gone through in the last thirty years. This will be the book on the kibbutz that gets to the heart of what the kibbutz experiment meant." - Joseph R. Blasi (J. Robert Beyster Professor, Rutgers University) "Providing an environment where early Zionists could live and work in a democratic and collective manner, the kibbutz is fundamental to Israeli society. This carefully researched and informative book will appeal to readers interested in democratic collectivism and Israeli society. Highly recommended."(Choice) "Russell, Hanneman, and Getz have written the first evidence-based overview of changes that kibbutzim have gone through in the last thirty years. This will be the book on the kibbutz that gets to the heart of what the kibbutz experiment meant." - Joseph R. Blasi (J. Robert Beyster Professor, Rutgers University)

• List of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Perspectives on Change in the Kibbutzim1. Development of the Kibbutzim2. From Crisis to Reform, 1985-20013. Consideration and Adoption of Innovations, 1990-20014. Transformation of the Kibbutzim, 1995-20115. From Transformation to RenewalAppendix: Data Sources and Statistical AnalyticsReferencesIndex

RAYMOND RUSSELL is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Sharing Ownership in the Workplace and Utopia in Zion: The Israeli Experience with Worker Cooperatives.ROBERT HANNEMAN is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He has authored four books, including State Intervention in Medical Care: Consequences for Britain, France, Sweden, and the United States.SHLOMO GETZ is a research associate at the Institute for Kibbutz Research at the University of Haifa and a senior lecturer at Emek Yezreel College in Israel. He has authored or coauthored numerous publications, including The Kibbutz in an Era of Changes and The Kibbutz: The Risk of Enduring (both written in Hebrew).

"Providing an environment where early Zionists could live and work in a democratic and collective manner, the kibbutz is fundamental to Israeli society. This carefully researched and informative book will appeal to readers interested in democratic collectivism and Israeli society. Highly recommended."(Choice) "Russell, Hanneman, and Getz have written the first evidence-based overview of changes that kibbutzim have gone through in the last thirty years. This will be the book on the kibbutz that gets to the heart of what the kibbutz experiment meant." - Joseph R. Blasi (J. Robert Beyster Professor, Rutgers University) "Providing an environment where early Zionists could live and work in a democratic and collective manner, the kibbutz is fundamental to Israeli society. This carefully researched and informative book will appeal to readers interested in democratic collectivism and Israeli society. Highly recommended."(Choice) "Russell, Hanneman, and Getz have written the first evidence-based overview of changes that kibbutzim have gone through in the last thirty years. This will be the book on the kibbutz that gets to the heart of what the kibbutz experiment meant." - Joseph R. Blasi (J. Robert Beyster Professor, Rutgers University)

• List of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Perspectives on Change in the Kibbutzim1. Development of the Kibbutzim2. From Crisis to Reform, 1985-20013. Consideration and Adoption of Innovations, 1990-20014. Transformation of the Kibbutzim, 1995-20115. From Transformation to RenewalAppendix: Data Sources and Statistical AnalyticsReferencesIndex