Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits - Rilegato

Kraybill, Donald B.; Nolt, Steven M.

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ISBN 10: 0801850622 ISBN 13: 9780801850622

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

The Amish people of Lancaster County, Pa., have shifted from farming to business ownership within a single generation, triggering a host of implications for the group place of residence, education, technology, child-rearing practices, gender roles, community structure, and relations with the outside world. And it reflects a fundamental transformation of worldview toward the modern and the rationalized. This analysis concludes that Lancaster's Amish haven't completely ceded their cultural souls to the pursuit of profit; they have achieved their economic success within the moral bounds of their church and without the typical trappings of technology and education. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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""The Amish lifestyle is changing, but the Amish grasp on the land is stronger than ever... The move of Amish into small businesses was documented by Donald B. Kraybill in his recent book, Amish Enterprise... Some Amish 'shopmen' no longer need to work dawn-to-dusk, as they did when tending dairy herds requiring 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. milkings. In this male-dominated society, some men are not the dominant influence in this cultural change because 'twenty percent of the businesses are operated by women.'." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

""Kraybill studied 1,000 Amish businesses in Lancaster County and found few cases of failure -- and some big successes. Some 15 percent had sales over $100,000, and 7 percent had sales over half a million dollars." -- Utne Reader

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Amish culture has been rooted in the soil since its beginnings in 1693. But what happens when of the members of America's oldest Amish community enter non-farm work in one generation?

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0801850622
• ISBN 13: 9780801850622
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 300