A distinctive American subculture responds to the forces of social change.
Editors' Preface
Introduction: The Struggle to Be Separate
p. 1
The Amish Encounter with Modernity
p. 21
War Against Progress: Coping with Social Change
p. 35
Plotting Social Change Across Four Affiliations
p. 53
Persistence and Change in Amish Education
p. 77
Amish on the Line: The Telephone Debates
p. 97
The Origin and Growth of Amish Tourism
p. 113
Amish Cottage Industries as Trojan Horse
p. 133
The Rise of Microenterprises
p. 149
Lunch Pails and Factories
p. 165
Modernity, the Folk Society, and the Old Order Amish
p. 185
Homespun Bureaucracy: A Case Study in Organizational Evolution
p. 199
Amish Women and the Feminist Conundrum
p. 215
Conclusion: What Good Are the Amish?
p. 231
Appendix: Amish Migration Patterns: 1972-1992
p. 243
Notes
p. 261
Bibliography
p. 279
Contributors
p. 299
Index
p. 301
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