Some Do This, Some Do That: Gender, Generation, Labour Division and Agricultural Development in the Reform Era

Abstract

This chapter compares different configurations of labour organisation of the post-revolutionary baby boomers’ generation and the ‘family planning generation’ as mothers in the reform era caused by their respective experiences during their girlhood and their current family structure, and the wife-husband power relations involved. Based on this, it also discusses how the labour organisation configurations have affected agricultural development, causing a transition from the ‘feminization of agriculture’ to the ‘ageing of farming populations’.