工場進出に伴う就業女性の生活変化に関する時間地理学的考察

神奈川県津久井町青野原地区を事例に

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The structure of the female local labor market has been studied from the viewpoint of firms or plants as employers, but housewives' role inside their household has not been analyzed. Housewives' working status has not been discussed in detail, on the other hand, at the level of the content of their working activities, using a time-geog-raphical approach. The purpose of this paper is to establish a system composed both of a plant as an employer and of a housewives as employees, and then to understand the female local labor market by coupling dialectically the plant's working and housewives' activities within a time-geographical perspective. The study area-Aonohara district, Tsukui-machi, Kanagawa Prefecture-is situated in the Greater Tokyo fringe area, where a plastic manufacturing plant was newly located and employed female parttimers.
It turns out that the plant's action on the inside- and outside-crisis which occured in the above-mentioned system is grouped into two categories: (1) emergency action and (2) radical reform. As a factor of reduction of product efficiency, immediately, the plant and the housewives cope with that crisis through a daily-rhythm. A crisis which cannot be solved through daily-rhythm, in turn, is solved by the monthly-rhythm schedule adjustment. In the case of a crisis which was not solved even by that adjustment, a radical reform has been required through yearly-rhythm. Further a relocation of the plant might be sometimes needed through life-rhythm.