essay
The rise of microenterprises
Amish struggle with modernity • Hanover, Nh • Published In 1994 • Pages: 148-163, 272
By: Kraybill, Donald B., Nolt, Steven M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Amish settlement in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has been dramatically squeezed by the pressures of suburbanization in recent decades. Declining farmland, rising land prices, and a burgeoning Amish population have made it difficult for young couples to enter farming. Rather than migrate or enter factory work many entrepreneurs have developed microenterprises. Donald B. Kraybill and Steven M. Nolt tell the story of the mushrooming microenterprises that now dot the landscape of Lancaster's Amish settlement. Kraybill and Nolt identify some of the moral boundaries of nonfarm work and also speculate on its long-term consequences for Amish life (p. 149).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Individual enterprise
- Internal trade
- Occupational specialization
- Ethos
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Amish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1790-1992
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Donald B. Kraybill and Steven M. Nolt
- For bibliographical references see document 20: [Kraybill and Olshan]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94013668
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Amish