This book examines the changes in many kibbutz factories which have recently transformed from socialist entities, with egalitarian and cooperative relationships, to hierarchical and market-driven structures.
Focusing on five case studies from an ethnographic perspective, the book explores the reasons for this organizational change and examines its ideological, social, and economic causes. Ranging from organizational culture as a tool for economic success to the cooperative clan lifestyle and its organizational experience for improving human life and economic production, the author uncovers...

This book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today’s working life is driven not only by pressure from above, but also from below. With an ethnographic study and by drawing upon Simmel’s Eigendynamik, the authors uncover the hidden attractions of doing administrative work.