Farm Mechanisation and its Impact on Women’s Labour: The Case of Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Tamaki Kashio
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Tamaki Kashio: Shiga University, tmk.kash.jp@gmail.com

Journal, 2019, vol. 9, issue 1, 33-45

Abstract: This paper examines changes in women’s labour in rice cultivation after the onset of mechanisation. It is based on detailed field work conducted in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Based on interviews with 12 elderly people, the paper traces the changes in women’s labour in rice farming at different stages of mechanisation. It shows that technological change led to a defeminisation of agriculture. Although mechanisation in its final form reduced women’s physical hardship, in the process, women lost all opportunities to participate in family farming. This change had profound economic and social implications.

Keywords: Farm mechanisation; rice; Japan; Shiga Prefecture; women; labour; female labour; agricultural labour; transplanting; family farming; agriculture; defeminisation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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