Book
Orderville, Utah: a pioneer Mormon experiment in economic organization
[s.n.] • 2 (2) • Published In 1954 • Pages: 44
By: Arrington, Leonard J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The community of Orderville attempted to reconcile Mormon communalism with capitalism by trying to realize full employment and equality while stimulating production and profit. The social experiment lasted for over ten years but eventually ended in transformation to a more individualistic community typical of the broader society. The author examines social order, settlement pattern, economic organization, subsistence and economic self-sufficiency, distribution of income, management, changes in wage and property systems which eventually led to the end of communalism, and finally the auctioning of communal property to the individual members.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural goals
- Production and supply
- Occupational specialization
- Cooperative organization
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Community structure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mormons
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economic Historian
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Martin Malone ; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1875-1885
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Orderville, Kane County, Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Leonard J. Arrington
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54062617
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormon pioneers--Utah
- Orderville(Utah)