Amish Micro Enterprises

Author : Donald B. Kraybill,Steven M. Nolt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0801878055

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Amish Enterprise by Donald B. Kraybill,Steven M. Nolt Pdf

Amish culture has been rooted in the soil since its beginnings in 1693. But what happens when members of America's oldest Amish community enter non-farm work in one generation? How will hundreds of cottage industries and micro-enterprises reshape the heart of Amish life? Will traditional eighth grade education still prove adequate? What about gender roles, child-rearing practices, leisure activities, and growing ties with outsiders? Amish Enterprise was the first book to discuss these dramatic changes that are transforming Amish communities across North America. Based on interviews with more than 150 Amish entrepreneurs, the authors trace the rise and impact of businesses in Lancaster's Amish settlement in recent decades. In this new edition, the authors update demographic and technological changes, and also describe Amish enterprises outside of Pennsylvania in a new chapter.

Author : Stephen M. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Amish
ISBN : MINN:31951D01238948J

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Amish Micro-enterprises by Stephen M. Smith Pdf

Author : Donald B. Kraybill,Marc Alan Olshan
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Amish
ISBN : 0874516846

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The Amish Struggle with Modernity by Donald B. Kraybill,Marc Alan Olshan Pdf

A distinctive American subculture responds to the forces of social change

Author : Erik Wesner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780470442371

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Success Made Simple by Erik Wesner Pdf

The keys to better business from a thriving group of business owners-the Amish Business can be discouraging. According to US Department of Labor figures, only 44 percent of newly-opened firms will last four years. Amish firms, on the other hand, have registered a 95% survival rate over a five-year period. And in many cases, those businesses do remarkably well-as Donald Kraybill writes: "the phrase 'Amish millionaire' is no longer an oxymoron." Success Made Simple is the first practical book of Amish business success principles for the non-Amish reader. The work provides a platform of transferable principles--simple and universal enough to be applied in the non-Amish world, in a wide variety of business and management settings. Learn how to develop profitable and fulfilling enterprises as Amish explain how to build fruitful relationships with customers and employees, prosper by playing to strengths, and create an effective marketing story Includes interviews with over 50 Amish business owners outline the role of relationships in business and the importance of the big picture-taking in long-term goals, the welfare of others, and personal integrity Offers ideas on practical application of Amish business practices to non-Amish businesses, with bullet summaries at the end of each chapter reviewing the most important take-away points With a focus on relationship-building and the big picture, Success Made Simple offers business owners everywhere the tools for better, smarter, more successful enterprises.

Author : Donald B. Kraybill,Karen M. Johnson-Weiner,Steven M. Nolt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421409146

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The Amish by Donald B. Kraybill,Karen M. Johnson-Weiner,Steven M. Nolt Pdf

The Amish have always struggled with the modern world. This title explores diversity and evolving identities within this distinctive American ethnic community, and its transformation and geographic expansion. It provides an authoritative and sensitive understanding of Amish society.

Author : Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801876318

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The Riddle of Amish Culture by Donald B. Kraybill Pdf

Revised edition of this classic work brings the story of the Amish into the 21st century. Since its publication in 1989, The Riddle of Amish Culture has become recognized as a classic work on one of America's most distinctive religious communities. But many changes have occurred within Amish society over the past decade, from westward migrations and a greater familiarity with technology to the dramatic shift away from farming into small business which is transforming Amish culture. For this revised edition, Donald B. Kraybill has taken these recent changes into account, incorporating new demographic research and new interviews he has conducted among the Amish. In addition, he includes a new chapter describing Amish recreation and social gatherings, and he applies the concept of "social capital" to his sensitive and penetrating interpretation of how the Amish have preserved their social networks and the solidarity of their community.

Author : John Sibley Butler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791486047

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Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans by John Sibley Butler Pdf

Since its publication in 1991, Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans has become a classic work, influencing the study of entrepreneurship and, more importantly, revitalizing a research tradition that places new ventures at the very center of success for black Americans. This revised edition updates and enhances the work by bringing it into the twenty-first century. John Sibley Butler traces the development of black enterprises and other community organizations among black Americans from before the Civil War to the present. He compares these efforts to other strong traditions of self-help among groups such as Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Greek Americans, and exciting new research on the Amish and the Pakistani. He also explores how higher education is already a valued tradition among black self-help groups—such that today their offspring are more likely to be third and fourth generation college graduates. Butler effectively challenges the myth that nothing can be done to salvage America's underclass without a massive infusion of public dollars, and offers a fresh perspective on those community based organizations and individuals who act to solve local social and economic problems.

Author : Michelle Bertho,Beverly Crawford,Edward A. Fogarty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 975 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313083198

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The Impact of Globalization on the United States by Michelle Bertho,Beverly Crawford,Edward A. Fogarty Pdf

Over the past decade, a virtual cottage industry has arisen to produce books and articles describing the nature, origins, and impact of globalization. Largely and surprisingly absent from this literature, however, has been extensive discussion of how globalization is affecting the United States itself. Indeed, it is rarely even acknowledged that while the United States may be providing a crucial impetus to globalization, the process of globalization — once set in motion — has become a force unto itself. Thus globalization has its own logic and demands that are having a profound impact within the United States, often in ways that are unanticipated. This set offers the first in-depth, systematic effort at assessing the United States not as a globalizing force but as a nation being transformed by globalization. Among the topics studied are globalization in the form of intensified international linkages; globalization as a universalizing and/or Westernizing force; globalization in the form of liberalized flows of trade, capital, and labor; and globalization as a force for the creation of transnational and superterritorial entities and allegiances. These volumes examine how each of these facets of globalization affects American government, law, business, economy, society, and culture.

Author : Léo-Paul Dana
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849806329

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Entrepreneurship and Religion by Léo-Paul Dana Pdf

'I wish this book had been around when I tried to teach about entrepreneurship in its social context; life would have been much easier with these informed sources.' – Alistair R. Anderson, Aberdeen Business School, UK This rich and detailed book makes a very timely contribution to extending our understanding of entrepreneurship in its social context. Using selected examples, the respected contributors show how the values developed in religious beliefs and practices shape entrepreneurship. For too long the entrepreneur has been characterized as an isolated, economically driven individual, thus ignoring how enterprise and entrepreneurs are products of their society, their culture and their religion. This innovative book discusses both entrepreneurship and religion, as well as indicating how the synthesis of beliefs and practices combine in entrepreneurial endeavours. It provides a conceptually useful way of framing the individualistic entrepreneur in his or her social and cultural context, demonstrating how entrepreneurial agency operates within and through a variety of religious contexts. Illustrated with original photographs, this captivating book will be warmly welcomed by students and researchers with interests in entrepreneurship, sociology, religion and cultural studies. Government policy-makers in immigration will also find this book an invaluable read.

Author : United States. Forest Service. Northern Research Station
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924104473263

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General Technical Report SRS by United States. Forest Service. Northern Research Station Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Outdoor recreation
ISBN : MINN:31951D02837511D

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Proceedings of the 2006 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles E. Hurst,David L. McConnell
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801897900

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An Amish Paradox by Charles E. Hurst,David L. McConnell Pdf

Winner, 2011 Dale Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College Holmes County, Ohio, is home to the largest and most diverse Amish community in the world. Yet, surprisingly, it remains relatively unknown compared to its famous cousin in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell conducted seven years of fieldwork, including interviews with over 200 residents, to understand the dynamism that drives social change and schism within the settlement, where Amish enterprises and nonfarming employment have prospered. The authors contend that the Holmes County Amish are experiencing an unprecedented and complex process of change as their increasing entanglement with the non-Amish market causes them to rethink their religious convictions, family practices, educational choices, occupational shifts, and health care options. The authors challenge the popular image of the Amish as a homogeneous, static, insulated society, showing how the Amish balance tensions between individual needs and community values. They find that self-made millionaires work alongside struggling dairy farmers; successful female entrepreneurs live next door to stay-at-home mothers; and teenagers both embrace and reject the coming-of-age ritual, rumspringa. An Amish Paradox captures the complexity and creativity of the Holmes County Amish, dispelling the image of the Amish as a vestige of a bygone era and showing how they reinterpret tradition as modernity encroaches on their distinct way of life.

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496822666

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The Practice of Folklore by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, often characterized as folklore. In The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition, author Simon J. Bronner works with theories of cultural practice to explain the social and psychological need for tradition in everyday life. Bronner proposes a distinctive “praxic” perspective that will answer the pressing philosophical as well as psychological question of why people enjoy repeating themselves. The significance of the keyword practice, he asserts, is the embodiment of a tension between repetition and variation in human behavior. Thinking with practice, particularly in a digital world, forces redefinitions of folklore and a reorientation toward interpreting everyday life. More than performance or enactment in social theory, practice connects localized culture with the vernacular idea that “this is the way we do things around here.” Practice refers to the way those things are analyzed as part of, rather than apart from, theory, thus inviting the study of studying. “The way we do things” invokes the social basis of “doing” in practice as cultural and instrumental. Building on previous studies of tradition in relation to creativity, Bronner presents an overview of practice theory and the ways it might be used in folklore and folklife studies. Demonstrating the application of this theory in folkloristic studies, Bronner offers four provocative case studies of psychocultural meanings that arise from traditional frames of action and address issues of our times: referring to the boogieman; connecting “wild child” beliefs to school shootings; deciphering the offensive chants of sports fans; and explicating male bravado in bawdy singing. Turning his analysis to the analysts of tradition, Bronner uses practice theory to evaluate the agenda of folklorists in shaping perceptions of tradition-centered “folk societies” such as the Amish. He further unpacks the culturally based rationale of public folklore programming. He interprets the evolving idea of folk museums in a digital world and assesses how the folklorists' terms and actions affect how people think about tradition.

Author : Brian D. Joseph
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814209130

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When Languages Collide by Brian D. Joseph Pdf

Author : Joshua R. Brown,Professor of German and Linguistics Joshua R Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Linguistic minorities
ISBN : 9780198864639

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The Verticalization Model of Language Shift by Joshua R. Brown,Professor of German and Linguistics Joshua R Brown Pdf

This book introduces a new and still emerging theoretical framework for understanding language shift and uses this approach to explore a range of minority language communities in the United States. To date, approaches to language shift have typically relied on explaining the process through descriptive sociolinguistic models, i.e., how the community first becomes bilingual in both the majority and minority languages and then eventually shifts entirely to the majority language. The contributions in this volume instead attribute shift to a change from local control of tightly interconnected 'horizontal' institutions within a community to more external or 'vertical' control of those increasingly autonomous institutions outside the community; in short, language shift is driven by specific changes in community structure. In addition, unlike previous approaches to language shift, the one proposed here is generalizable. Following an introduction to the theory, the main five chapters in the book offer case studies of individual language communities, in different contexts and different periods. The final three chapters of the book take a broader perspective, looking beyond the United States: two leading specialists in the field provide critical commentaries on the theoretical approach and offer refinements to a theory of language shift, before a concluding chapter draws together the findings of the case studies and reflections on the commentaries. The volume will appeal to researchers and students in the fields of language revitalization, community studies, sociolinguistics, and social history.