Body Techniques: Becoming a Craftsman from the Forest Products Industry in Luodong

• Main Authors: Pei-Yin, Shih, 施佩吟
• Other Authors: 劉可強
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03461125446701365990

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 建築與城鄉研究所 === 97 === Since Japanese ruled period, the forestry center of Tai-Ping mountain is one of the three major forestry centers in Taiwan. Because of being the latest developed forestry center and to be rich in abundant logs, Tai-Ping mountain critically pushed forward Luodong’s economy development. From then on, local people’s sociall life are deeply embedded in the forest products industry. This research attempts to use the relationship between woods and market to grasp concept of craftsman, and on this basis I want to discuss how a skilled labor could possibly become a craftsman from the forest products industry. Follow on the context of forest products industry, I point out that the body techniques of skilled labor origined from their labor producing process, and up to post-forest products industry period, the figures of craftsman could be different from before. For replying the boundary of planning practice, I put six parts to explain my concept. The second chapter accounts for the context of forest products industry, and the third part tells how skill labors get body techniques from lumbering and sawmill industry. Concrete speaking, the skill used on distinguishing wood materials include smelling, seeing and touching, these are called body techniques. However, in 1991 the government forbade all the lumbering activity in Taiwan. After that, those who has body techniques must reconstruct himself to connect with woods and market to maintain their subsistence. The fourth chapter deals with how existence body techniques open up its connection with new wood materials and customize production. Next I address four face-to-face fields as the essence factors that supply skill to be upgraded. They are “examine goods”, “conduct a class”, “discuss” and “customize producing”. After proving the existence of body techniques, I consider in post-forest products industry period the role of craftsman could possibly made up by “master worker + boss” and “master worker ＝ boss” these two relationships . In conclusion, for replying the boundary of planning practice, I point out that body techniques are personal knowledge and hard to describe, and the face-to-face fields are temperary existence in space, they both can not be planned, which belong to the category of “limitation of planning practice”.