ABSTRACT

OF THE thirty-eight landless households in the village, only four are able to make a living from nonagricultural occupations; all the rest are dependent for at least part of their livelihood on farm employment and constitute a large proportion of the total labor supply. The members of nineteen of these households are called “new settlers” by the villagers. Table 10 gives the origins of these immigrants. Of these nineteen families, one operates a farm which it possesses temporarily on the basis of a loan; seven rent land; and the remaining eleven work only as laborers on the farms of others. Native Places of the New Settlers

Other villages of Lu-fon

4

Lo-tsu

2

Yen-ching

1

Chiang-ch’uan

1

Yu-chi

1

Chu-ching

1

Hei-ching

1

Szechwan province

8