ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship between mechanization and labor, and the consequences of this relationship for migration out of the village. It focuses on the effect that mechanization has on the organization of work, and in particular on the role of the household as the basic unit for organizing labor. In a hypothetical extreme case the combination of mechanization and marketing might move a society from egalitarianism based on levelling mechanisms to a considerable social differentiation based on wealth and power. The increased commercialization implies a tighter integration in the world capitalist market system through dependence on machine and fuel markets on an international scale. The chapter provides some notes on the segmentation of the labor market in Musha. Migration from Musha has been and continues to be of two kinds. On the one hand, there is the usual temporary migration of individual males. The other kind of migration is the migration of whole families.
