As economic pressures pushed the Amish off their farms, they found themselves in the same situation as the rest of the modern world: the whole-day, whole-family enterprise of unmechanized agriculture gave way to the familiar dichotomies of wage labor and leisure, public work and private home. But those thick extended families and deeply-held values of Gelassenheit and communal identity, not yet eaten away by liquid modernity, gave them a push to seek out or create work that preserved the parts of farming that were particularly conducive to living an Amish life.