Amish Struggle with Modernity

Name: Amish Struggle with Modernity
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ISBN: 9780874516845

ISBN-10: 0874516846

ISBN-13: 9780874516845

Edition: N/A

Authors: Donald B. Kraybill, Marc A. Olshan

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Book details

List price: $25.95
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 9/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Editors' Preface



Introduction: The Struggle to Be Separate




The Amish Encounter with Modernity




War Against Progress: Coping with Social Change




Plotting Social Change Across Four Affiliations




Persistence and Change in Amish Education




Amish on the Line: The Telephone Debates




The Origin and Growth of Amish Tourism




Amish Cottage Industries as Trojan Horse




The Rise of Microenterprises




Lunch Pails and Factories




Modernity, the Folk Society, and the Old Order Amish




Homespun Bureaucracy: A Case Study in Organizational Evolution




Amish Women and the Feminist Conundrum




Conclusion: What Good Are the Amish?



Appendix: Amish Migration Patterns: 1972-1992



Notes


Bibliography


Contributors


Index