essay
Lunch pails and factories
Amish struggle with modernity • Hanover, Nh • Published In 1994 • Pages: 164-181, 273,
By: Meyers, Thomas J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Many observers have argued that the survival of Amish society rests on an agrarian way of life. Unlike their Lancaster cousins, many of the Amish in the Elhart-Lagrange settlement of Indiana have left their cows and have taken up factory employment. This settllement offers an intersting case study in which to explore the linkage between Amish culture and an agricultural way of life. Thomas Meyers assesses the impact of factory work and concludes that although employment away from home will bring changes it will not lead to the demise of Amish society (p. 165).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor supply and employment
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Labor relations
- Tillage
- Congregations
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- 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.
- 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
- 1920-1991
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Elkhart-Lagrange, Indiana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas J. Meyers
- For bibliographical references see document 20: [Kraybill and Olshan]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94013668
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Amish