大川市とその周辺農村における地域労働市場の展開と農家の兼業化
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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of part-time farming and the mechanism of its evolution in Okawa city, Fukuoka prefecture and its surrounding rural areas, emphasizing the effect of the local labor market. The auther pays special attention to the local labor market composed of indigenous industry. For this purpose, the auther examines following issues. 1) Characteristics of the local labor market mainly composed of the furniture industry. 2) The characteristics of agricultural management in rural areas. 3) The relation between the agricultural management and the local labor market, and the expansion of part-time farming in rural areas. This paper then examines occupational structures of farm households at two selected agricultural settlements to make clear the effect of labor market expansion on farmers. The results are summarized as follows. 1) Production in furniture industry has risen by an adoption of the mass production since the 1950s. Consequently the development of this industry has created new employment opportunities. 2) Labor market in cities such as Saga and Kurume region have also expanded due to the growth of tertiary industries. 3) Labor saving in agriculture caused by mechanization increased surplus laborers in farm households. Therefore above mentioned situation accelerated the shift to part-time farming. A number of laborers in the farm households are engaged in non-agricultural work in full time condition. As a result part-time farmers changed their agricultural management reducing or giving up the production of laber intensive crops.
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