Pub Date : 2018-06-30DOI: 10.11634/216826311706927
A. Gordon
This article examines how cultural models in the national political culture played out in a Belizean village whose culture was rooted in a quite different cultural model and characterized by ideals of self-reliance and individualism rooted in Yucatecan Maya culture. This is a study of eight worker cooperatives, of cooperation, and of individual work over a 34-year period, from 1979 to 2012 in the village of Bullet Tree Falls. This village is an historically agricultural village populated with Maya refugees from Mexico and Guatemala. I observed three distinct national political cultures, each seeking to promote local worker cooperatives. But generally, the national political culture did little to support the worker cooperatives. Only in the last phase of influence do we see what was necessary to make a worker cooperative organization somewhat functional. The paper concludes with observation of two enterprises where workers successfully participated, but not according to the formula for the cooperative. Here personnel could work independently but cooperated only when it proved useful. Recognition of positive features of the workplace environment suggests that investigating local cultural experience is an important and practicable effort, far more so than simply assuming the national political culture is viable on the local level.
本文探讨了国家政治文化中的文化模式如何在一个伯利兹村庄中发挥作用，该村庄的文化植根于一种完全不同的文化模式，其特点是植根于尤卡坦玛雅文化的自力更生和个人主义理想。这是一项对子弹树瀑布村(Bullet Tree Falls)从1979年到2012年34年期间的8个工人合作社、合作和个人工作的研究。这个村庄是一个历史上的农业村庄，居住着来自墨西哥和危地马拉的玛雅难民。我观察到三种截然不同的国家政治文化，每种文化都寻求促进当地工人合作社。但总的来说，国家政治文化对工人合作社的支持很少。只有在影响的最后阶段，我们才能看到使工人合作组织发挥作用所必需的条件。本文最后观察了两个工人成功参与的企业，但没有按照合作社的公式。在这里，人员可以独立工作，但只有在证明有用时才进行合作。承认工作场所环境的积极特征表明，调查当地文化经验是一项重要和切实可行的努力，远远超过简单地假设国家政治文化在地方一级是可行的。
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