Migrating to the Roads in the Cities in Uttar Pradesh: Some Reflections

Bhaskar Majumder () and V. Narayan
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Bhaskar Majumder: G B Pant Social Science Institute
V. Narayan: G B Pant Social Science Institute

A chapter in Development Challenges of India After Twenty Five Years of Economic Reforms, 2020, pp 379-395 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The members, mostly male, from the distressed households in the rural regions migrate to the cities in India in search of jobs and stand on the public roads each morning. These street labourers are hired by employers for engagement at the bottom of the labour market understood by the work profile. These labourers are supposedly free to offer their labour power to any buyer at perceived labour-equivalent wage rate and refrain from questioning the working conditions that often remain adverse as much as the adverse initial conditions at their outmigration zone; these adverse conditions incapacitate them to bargain. This paper examines if migration of the street labourers in all the six million-plus populated cities of Uttar Pradesh reflects migration under distress and if labour is forced in nature. The paper also addresses the institutional questions by legal provisions and suggests at the end what are to be done.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8265-3_19

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