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Rural industrialization in a Taiwanese township: Social and economic organization and change.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rural industrialization in a Taiwanese township: Social and economic organization and change./
Author:	Bosco, Joseph.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1989,
Description:	517 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 51-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International51-04A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8919141
ISBN:	9781392648865

Rural industrialization in a Taiwanese township: Social and economic organization and change.
Bosco, Joseph.

Rural industrialization in a Taiwanese township: Social and economic organization and change. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1989 - 517 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 51-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1989.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Despite increasing agricultural production, farming has become a part-time activity because low crop prices, small farm size, and comparatively high wages from factories and physical labor have encouraged Wandan residents to work outside the farm. Agricultural growth has been the product not of unleashing the family farm but of state development efforts in irrigation, extension, and marketing. The state has controlled prices of rice, sugar cane, and other key export crops, and accumulated profits from agricultural exports for Taiwan's early industrial development. Land reform, more than a development program, greatly expanded the state's power over the island's economy. Factories began moving to the southern Taiwanese countryside in the early 1970s. Many of the factories are small sub-contracting or putting-out operations. These factories are not inefficient versions of larger factories, but operate in symbiotic relationship with major factories. Sound political and economic reasons, not just cultural predispositions (i.e. 'familism' or the 'domestic mode of production'), encourage the formation of family-owned enterprises. Wandan's factories, however, are not the autonomous small-scale enterprises envisioned by many rural industrialization advocates, but a product of the international division of labor. The extremely weak lineage orientation of residents in the township studied shows the regional variation based on local adaptation that is possible within Chinese culture. Family relations have changed as the area has industrialized. Especially notable is the declining power of the family head and the improved position of the son and daughter-in-law. Family division has become a more subtle, drawn out process. Though family forms appear different, they are in fact organized following persisting underlying principles of division. Showing the flexibility of the traditional principles of family organization challenges the idea of the family as an autonomous actor in social change. Since there have been important changes in the family, and since traditional principles of family organization offer great flexibility, family organization should not be viewed as an agent restricting factory size and further economic development.

ISBN: 9781392648865Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

Rural industrialization in a Taiwanese township: Social and economic organization and change.
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