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Long, Scot Eric.

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The complexity of labor exchange among Amish farm households in Holmes County, Ohio.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The complexity of labor exchange among Amish farm households in Holmes County, Ohio./
Author:	Long, Scot Eric.
Description:	213 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-01, Section: A, page: 0195.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-01A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3119481
ISBN:	9780496668724

The complexity of labor exchange among Amish farm households in Holmes County, Ohio.
Long, Scot Eric.

The complexity of labor exchange among Amish farm households in Holmes County, Ohio. - 213 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-01, Section: A, page: 0195.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2003.

Economic success for the Amish is due, in part, to labor exchange practices and other similar communal sharing. While the topic of labor exchange has been given a fair amount of attention by social scientists in many settings, there have been no labor exchange studies on the Old Order Amish from an anthropological perspective.

ISBN: 9780496668724Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

The complexity of labor exchange among Amish farm households in Holmes County, Ohio.
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520 $a Specifically, this research project considers aspects of labor exchange and its relationship to farm production from an empirical analysis of two Old Order Amish church districts in Clark Township in the southeast portion of Holmes County, Ohio. The unit of analysis is the Amish farm "household" consisting of a family of three or four generations engaging in an intensive type of agriculture as defined by Netting (1993:28--29). The data collected represents farm labor inputs of households within the two church districts and other Amish farm households in the Holmes County settlement. The focus of this dissertation is an examination of how Amish farm families share labor at the household and community levels. The latter includes organized and seasonal labor exchange, such as grain threshing or silo-filling; informal labor exchange, such as "frolics" or work gatherings by collateral family and neighbors; mutual aid such as a barn raising; and labor exchange outside of agriculture.
520 $a The main hypothesis of this dissertation proposes that Amish farmers engage in labor exchange activity in order to pool human capital so that the combined work output is greater than the amount of labor that each farmer could accomplish individually. The second hypothesis contends that the traditional dichotomy between labor sharing and commodification of labor in Amish society is responsive to farm intensification, population pressure, and local economic expansion.
520 $a The methodology for this ethnographic research uses both quantitative and qualitative data collection of labor exchange among farmers in two Amish church districts from July 1998 through June 1999. The quantitative portion employs a survey instrument using interview techniques for gathering details regarding labor exchange practices. Key informant interviews and participant observation make up the qualitative data collection with the goal of obtaining cultural arrangements of labor exchange practices.
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