kibbutzim

kibbutzim
Agricultural settlements inspired by socialist and anarchist ideals, established by Jewish settlers in Palestine, in which working and domestic arrangements, including child-care, are shared by members. They later came to employ wage labour and to form a small part of the Israeli economic system. They are interesting to sociologists primarily as experiments in egalitarian communal living (see B. Bettelheim, The Children of the Dream, 1969). See also commune.