ABSTRACT
Youth connected with the Zionist Pioneer movement, planning to emigrate to Palestine and establish a Kvutza, may form a group, which prepares itself for economic goal by training in agriculture or other vocations useful to co-operative practice. The Histadrut combines the usual trade-union features with political, cultural, and social activities by means of an association built on direct membership, not on the customary vocational trade-union affiliations. The Kvutza owns only what it produces. This is the economic basis for its scale of social values, at the top of which stands the “good worker”. The General Assembly elects committees for all phases of community life, of which the most important are the Management Committee and the Work Assignment Committee. Like the industrial unions, the co-operative societies are not separated from the main body of the Histadrut but are rather departments whereby the Histadrut attempts to facilitate the various phases of the economic life of the workers.
