We conducted in depth interviews with over 170 people. We finished interviewing in December 1998. That task was completed in December 1999. We will be analyzing the interviews in order to write two books. The first book will explore the role culture plays in daily life in this region.
Workers flow through a mosaic of organizational cultures in their daily lives.
Individuals must negotiate this metamorphic social terrain by creating social networks that can sustain them and new metaphors to justify their strategies. Work is the dominant venue for this creativity. Work and non-work time become blurred. Community activity, justified by its value to work, reaches into education, communications, recreation and family. Community becomes transformed into an instrumental force for production.