The Impact of Capital Expansion on Rural Social Reproduction:Based on the Investigation and Analysis of a Large Agricultural County in Central Plains
How to properly deal with the relationship between social reproduction and capital accumulation is a major issue of the times.Taking PY County in Henan Province as a typical case,this paper deeply analyzes how capital expansion has gradually destroyed the social reproduction system in rural China in recent years and the adverse consequences.The study found that in the past decade,due to the massive expansion of capital and the assistance of local government,two key social reproduction institutions in rural PY County-education and marriage-have been gradually commoditized,becoming tools for capital profit and sources of accumulation.The commodification of education and marriage forced rural families to participate in the real estate market,which,while driving the big boom in the real estate market in PY County,put enor-mous economic pressure on rural families,triggered a large outflow of rural female labor force,and left many rural families with heavy debts.The result has been an adverse impact on two other institutions of so-cial reproduction:a breakdown in care and financial support for the elderly,and a sharp decline in the ru-ral birth rate.This means that the social space in rural China,where a farming family can reproduce its population in a low-cost,relatively non-commoditized way,is disappearing.
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