Family Life Cycle And Household Income In The Late Period Of Collectivization

This paper, taking Shiqiao production team in the city of Xuyi Jiangsu province as the center, analyses the relevance of between Family Life cycle and household income in the late period of collectivization. The whole paper, in addition to the introduction and conclusion, is divided into five chapters.The first chapter claiming a brief introduction of the concept of family life cycle, respectively describes the division standard of family cycle stages. Then, based on this division standard, respectively showed new group family,extended family, mature family and atrophy family in Shiqiao, and analyzed the relevance of between Family Life cycle and household income in the late period of collectivization, and indicates the high relevance of them.Chapter two analyzes the periodic differences of household income and the link between the differences and the peasant family population behavior. The differences of Household income caused by the family life cycle, affected the willingness and behavior of farmers to reproduce.But under the planned economic system, the peasant family reproductive behavior is restricted by the national economic policy,and so on. These external factors "distorted" the population effect of periodic differences between household income, also indirectly affect the farmers’ attitude towards the one-child policy.The third chapter shows the fact of household labor input and configuration on the case of Shiqiao village around. The peasant family under the people’s commune system is a independent economic entity. Despite the production team have certain constraints to the person, and the labor force of the peasant family is not completely controlled by the family, according to the labor-consumption rate of family members farmers could still decide the labor configuration between collective administration organs and the avocation, And to a certain extent, decided the number of input labor in the team production. Collective labor input of Farmers on team production, mainly depends on the labor-consumption rate of the family, rather than the "maximum economic benefits".The fourth chapter analysis based on the labor payment system-Labor voucher system, and the effects of its actual operation to family income."Distribution according to work" as the principle of the system is intended to encourage members of labor input of the collective production. But loopholes that existed in the system and the characteristics of agricultural production, maked it difficult to accurately reflect the relationship between the labor and benefits, and thus affected the labor input of farmers to collective production and labor configuration, which affected the income disparity of family at different stages.The fifth chapter analysis the impact on household income accounting distribution system based on the production team. Accounting system’s influence on peasant household income, on the one hand, is that it of the provisions of the accounting units, on the other hand is that the differences in economic conditions between accounting units at the same level. In spite of in the Late collectivization, the accounting unit is production team, but the collective economy, such as the production brigade and the people’s commune asking for the labor and property of duty, often brought negative influence peasant household income. To the families of different stage, the impact is different.After researching a peasant family cycle, population behavior, labor input and configuration, payment system and distribution system, we found that under the complex system of macro and micro policy, farmers will use a variety of favorable factors to increase the family income per capita, but the peasant family on collective labor input of production was not "sufficient", not only considering economic benefits, but considering the economic and social effect of labor input.