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Building cooperatives, constructing communality: Time-geographies of labor mobilization in co-op, household and village commune in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Building cooperatives, constructing communality: Time-geographies of labor mobilization in co-op, household and village commune in Oaxaca, Mexico./
Author:	Mutersbaugh, Tad.
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05, Section: A, page: 1927.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-05A.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9529436

Building cooperatives, constructing communality: Time-geographies of labor mobilization in co-op, household and village commune in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Mutersbaugh, Tad.

Building cooperatives, constructing communality: Time-geographies of labor mobilization in co-op, household and village commune in Oaxaca, Mexico. - 266 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05, Section: A, page: 1927.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1994.

Cooperative rural development depends upon successful mobilization of labor, yet securing labor power for commodity production proves exceptionally difficult. The dissertation examines cooperativist strategies of labor mobilization in Santa Cruz, a Chinantec community of Oaxaca, Mexico. A group of villagers confronted with sharply declining real incomes form a co-op dedicated to producing commodities (e.g. furniture) that require technical knowledge and investment capital beyond the capacity of individual peasant households. After initial successes in infrastructure provision, the co-op encounters difficulty in securing a steady work force. Without a consistent supply of labor power, co-op projects founder. Despite setbacks, co-op members continue to acquire additional labor-saving technologies and technical knowledge. A high degree of cooperativist commitment and skill level makes their inability to mobilize an adequate labor supply all the more puzzling: why are cooperativists unable to secure sufficient labor power?Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

Building cooperatives, constructing communality: Time-geographies of labor mobilization in co-op, household and village commune in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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520 $a Cooperative rural development depends upon successful mobilization of labor, yet securing labor power for commodity production proves exceptionally difficult. The dissertation examines cooperativist strategies of labor mobilization in Santa Cruz, a Chinantec community of Oaxaca, Mexico. A group of villagers confronted with sharply declining real incomes form a co-op dedicated to producing commodities (e.g. furniture) that require technical knowledge and investment capital beyond the capacity of individual peasant households. After initial successes in infrastructure provision, the co-op encounters difficulty in securing a steady work force. Without a consistent supply of labor power, co-op projects founder. Despite setbacks, co-op members continue to acquire additional labor-saving technologies and technical knowledge. A high degree of cooperativist commitment and skill level makes their inability to mobilize an adequate labor supply all the more puzzling: why are cooperativists unable to secure sufficient labor power?
520 $a Two sets of conflicts weaken the co-op's ability to mobilize labor. In the first instance households, the co-op and the village commune struggle over allocation of labor power to their respective institutional projects. Conflicting time-geographies of labor utilization intensify labor scarcity. The principal locus of intra-village conflict occurs between co-op and household: while women are supportive of the cooperativist ideal they are reticent to shoulder additional work obligations in order to smooth labor supply to co-op production tasks. In the second instance cooperativists confront a conundrum of worker-ownership; cooperativists must find methods of evaluating and sanctioning each other that do not compromise co-op organizational integrity. Cooperativists of Santa Cruz have developed important solutions to cooperative problems: surveillance (information gathering) is enhanced by restructuring commodity production geography, and sanctions are assessed by techniques appropriated from local Chinantec communal culture. Cooperativists nevertheless confront a dilemma of cooperative rural development: cooperative commodity production utilizing new labor-saving technologies requires an unanticipated transformation of local social relations. Men and women must renegotiate household gender task divisions and cooperativists must accept co-op-imposed structures of surveillance and sanctions.
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