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

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  • Tamaki Kashio

    (Shiga University, tmk.kash.jp@gmail.com)

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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.

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  • Tamaki Kashio, 2019. "Farm Mechanisation and its Impact on Women’s Labour: The Case of Shiga Prefecture, Japan," Journal, Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 9(1), pages 33-45, January-J.
    • Handle: RePEc:fas:journl:v:9:y:2019:i:1:p:33-45
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