Abstract
AbstractThis article explores how participation in cooperatives seeks to accomplish an ideal form of the market through the constitutive ethics of organization and skill development. It does so by exploring the cooperative processes and practices of the Jamaica Indigenous Artisans Cooperative, or JAMIA, a small group of 35 vendors and artisans formed in Montego Bay in 2010. Through their employment of a rhetoric, which emphasizes the importance of skill development and organization as a means of accomplishment, JAMIA demonstrates to what extent cooperative ideologies, or imaginaries, serve to legitimize, console, or even frustrate the economic position of cooperative membership.
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