Principes, types et problèmes de la démocratie directe dans les kibboutzim

Rosner Menachem. Principes, types et problèmes de la démocratie directe dans les kibboutzim. In: Autogestion : études, débats, documents, N°2, 1967. pp. 105-120

Aliénation, fétichisme, anomie

Rosner Menachem, Navelet Brigitte. Aliénation, fétichisme, anomie. In: L'Homme et la société, N. 11, 1969. Freudo-marxisme et sociologie de l'aliénation. pp. 81-107

Ownership and Alienation in Kibbutz Factories

As well as hiring workers who are members of the kibbutz and who, therefore, are owners of the means of production, some kibbutz factories have hired workers who are not kibbutz members. Our hypotheses, drawn from the writings of Marx and others, suggest both “individual” and “contextual effects” of ownership on alienation. At the individual level, hired workers will feel more alienated than kibbutz workers. Similarly, at the contextual level, persons in factories where some workers are hired will feel more alienated than will persons in factories that do not include hired workers whether or not the persons are themselves hired workers. These hypotheses imply intervening variables such as influence by workers that are examined through a path analysis. The analysis indicates only individual effects of ownership on feeling of alienation although ownership does have a contextual effect on aspects of the participativeness of the factor.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68436/2/10.1177_0730888487014002003.pd

Factors behind the Supply and Demand for Less Alienating Work, and Some International Illustrations

An economic framework for understanding the incidence of less alienating job designs in varying industrial settings is developed. Both the supply and demand sides are discussed, and the approach is illustrated by consideration of the frequency of introduction of alienation-reducing job designs in Swedish, Japanese, US and Israeli kibbutz industrial enterprises. The competitiveness of product and labour markets, and the set of available methods of attracting workers and eliciting real effort from them, are among the key explanatory factors found to operate in the cases examined.Alienation, Israel, Japan, Job design, Sweden, USA

Organizational Efficiency and Egalitarian Democracy in an Intentional Communal Society: The Kibbutz

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Worker Participation and Influence in Five Countries

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The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz

What limits the capacity of society to redistribute? What determines the structure of compensation in organizations striving for income equality? This paper addresses these questions by investigating the economic and sociological forces underlying the persistence of the Israeli kibbutzim, communities based on the principle of income equality. To do this, I exploit newly assembled data on kibbutzim and a financial crisis in the late 1980s that affected them differentially. The main findings are that (1) productive individuals are the most likely to exit and a kibbutz's wealth serves as a lock-in device that increases the value of staying; (2) higher wealth reduces exit and supports a high degree of income equality; and (3) ideology facilitates income equality. Using a simple model, I show that these findings are consistent with a view of the kibbutz as providing optimal insurance when members have the option of leaving. More generally, these findings contribute to an understanding of how mobility limits redistribution, and to an understanding of the determinants of the sharing rule in other types of organizations, such as professional partnerships, cooperatives, and labor-managed firms. (c) 2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..