Avi Shnider’s research focuses on social transformations in labor organizations in general, and in particular, in the Israeli agricultural cooperative settlements in the early 21st century. As said by the Israeli poet Shaul Tchernichovsky “Man is but the imprint of his native landscape”; and so, his research interests emerge from his native landscape, focusing on space, organization, and community.

The theoretical foundation of Dr. Shnider’s research is the notion that transformations in labor organizations in recent decades reflect social transformations in the late modern era, and the shift to post-modern society. His studies focus on the turning point of society in general, and particularly labor organizations and the labor world, from modernity to post-modernity.