Iターン林業労働者の職業と生活 : ひとつの職業社会学の試み
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Working in a rural area has been increasingly occupying the interest of urban residents in these days in Japan. The folest worker is one of these jobs. This article focuses on the work and life of such urban origin new forest workers, especially paying attention to their selective process of occupation. On the history of sociology in Japan this kind of perspective is situated on the stream of sociology of occupation, which was in vented before World War II but merged into industrial sociology later on. The second aim of this articleis to revive the sociology of occupation for the workers in the primary industries in particular. Data was collected by the intensive interview method in the selecled three Japanese mountainous areas. Main findings are as follows. First, forest workers are of higher mobility and of more craftsmanship than, for example, farmers, because most forest workers are employed by Shinrinkumiai (forestowner's cooperatives) and they don't need to prepare the initial expenditure in any particular place, and because they are requested to obtain a somewhat highly skill. Second, their comparatively poor relationship with the places of their rural residence is derived. While new farmers must make a relation with their rural communities to rent the arable land and so on, new forest workers pay attention mainly to the organizations which employ them. Third, however, their purpose to be new forest workers has two dimensions: to be a skilled forest person and to live in a good environment. The word 'good' includes not only physical aspects but also mental or social aspects. So their present alienated situation in the co㎜unity will be problematic.
- 2002-03-01