Summary
The cooperative smallholders’ village, one of the two new forms of agricultural settlement — with the Kibbutz — through which the labour-Zionist movement, heavily subsidised by the Zionist movement’s institutions, overcame the absorption problems of the First Aliya’s moshava model in Zachary Lockman’s account; the first moshav was established in 1920 (Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, lines 588-590).
Details
- The new types of settlement seemed to overcome the problems inherent in the moshava model of Zionist agricultural settlement which had characterised the First Aliya by allowing for more cost-effective absorption of immigrants and more efficient use of their labour (lines 588-590).
- The moshav and kibbutz complemented new sources of Histadrut-controlled urban employment in the creation, after the First World War, of the labour movement’s own economic sector (lines 588-590).
Related pages
Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, Kibbutz, Histadrut, Labor Zionism