RURAL SETTLEMENT AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

Abstract

In this symposium, we intended to clarify the following five problems.1. The patterns of industrialization in rural areas and their regional variations.2. The relations between the regional characteristics of rural industries and their mar kets or circulating systems.3. The influences of industrialization on agriculture in rural industrial areas.4. The influences of industrialization on social rerations in rural communities of industrial areas.5. The history of the industrialization policies in rural areas, and the role of these policies to the modernization of the rural communities. Concering these problems, five reports were given. (1) KITAMURA, Y. (Toyo Univ.): The distributions and the classifications of rural manu facturing industries in Japan. (2)AOYAGI, K. (Thhoku Univ.) : The pickled vegetables industry in Yokote basin in the Thhoku region. (3)KUSAKABE, T. (Ashikaga High School): The relationship between farming and subcon tract textile works operated by farmers- the case study of the Ashikaga textile (for domestic use) manufacturing area(4)MATUDA, M. (Odawara Jonai High Schopl) : The role of seasonal workers from rural areas during winter, and the supplying systems of those workers-the case study in Matsushi ro-machi, Niigata prefecture -(5)MURAKAMI, M. (Hiroshima Univ.): The changing characteristics of rural communities where manufacturing factories were newly located-the case study of the rural settele ments in the Chugoku highland region. We had the free discussion about those reports and comments. (MURATA, K. and UKITA, T. chaired) The following points were main issues. (1) Justification of the stud areas. (2)elationships between the disintegration of farmers and the manufacturing industries. (3)Relationships between the industrialization in rural settlements and the social re lations in rural communities.(4) Criteria used as measures of the effect of industrialization in rural areas.(5)Influences of the manufacturing industries on rural settlements.