The Transformation of the Kibbutzim: Lessons for the Sustainability of Utopian Communities
“Socioeconomic Inequality, Social Capital, and Wellbeing in Kibbutz Communities”
Tuesday, October 28, 4 pm, 206 Ingraham Hall
“The Transformation of Kibbutzim in Israel: Process, Causes, and Outcomes”
Wednesday, October 29, 4 pm, 8417 Social Sciences Building
Public Seminar
Thursday, October 30, 12:20 pm, 8108 Social Sciences Building
Co-sponsored by the UW Global Studies Program
URIEL LEVIATAN (Ph.D., Organizational Psychology, University of Michigan) is a past director of the Institute for Social Research of the Kibbutz and Professor of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has been a member of Kibbutz Ein Hamifratz for many years where he held various central leadership positions, including the offices of General Secretary and Finance Manager. His current research interests focus on organizational behavior and functioning, kibbutzim, and social gerontology. He is the author or co-author of dozens of articles and book chapters, as well as three books, including Crisis in the Israeli Kibbutz: Meeting the Challenge of Changing Times (Praeger, 1998).
Readings:
Uriel Leviatan. “Structural Changes in Kibbutzim, Socioeconomic Inequality, Disparity in Social Capital, and effects on health and well being,” Occasional Paper for the Institute of Cooperative Studies, University of Victoria, BC Canada .pdf
Yaakov Gluck, “Individual Needs and Public Distribution in the Kibbutz” in Leviatan, U., Oliver, H. and J. Quarter (1998). Crisis in the Israeli Kibbutz: Meeting the Challenge of Changing Times, Prageer Publishers.
Michal Palgi, “Organization in Kibbutz Industry” in Leviatan, U., Oliver, H. and J. Quarter (1998). Crisis in the Israeli Kibbutz: Meeting the Challenge of Changing Times, Prageer Publishers.
Menachem Rosner, “Work in the Kibbutz” in in Leviatan, U., Oliver, H. and J. Quarter (1998). Crisis in the Israeli Kibbutz: Meeting the Challenge of Changing Times, Prageer Publishers.