Debt bondage in India is often associated with seasonal migration and extreme poverty. If migration is considered as an integral part of the survival strategies of the poor, the impact of migration on relations of exploitation is still very much debated. Various studies undertaken during the 1990s showed that this debt bondage system, at least in its traditional form, gradually fell into disuse because capitalist farming, in actuality, necessitates the mobility of “free labour” that is not bound to landlords. It has also, conversely, contributed to the reinforcement of debt bondage through a system of advance controlled by the labour broker or jobber (maistries). In this paper we investigate the link between debt bondage and seasonal migrat...
Rural households in many countries have used temporary or seasonal migration as a strategy to cope w...
In this paper, I examine the relation between seasonal labor migration in rural western India and so...
Abstract. This paper examines the socio-economic condition of the migrant workers in Kerala. We anal...
La servitude pour dette en Inde est souvent associée à la migration saisonnière et à l'extrême pauvr...
This paper examines the brick kiln industry in Tamil Nadu as a case study to highlight the discrepan...
Migrant labourers, free from rural bondage, are now bonded to other sources of debt, contracted from...
The economic reforms and neo-liberal policies of late nineties have brought about irreversible trans...
Taking a historical perspective this paper explores the phasing out of ‘bonded’ labour in agricultur...
Debt bondage is the focus of an international struggle for its abolition. Yet the literature finds t...
It is now recognised that migration is an integral part of the survival strategies of the poor; esp...
Rural households in many countries have used temporary or seasonal migration as a strategy to cope w...
Inbound migration is more relevant in the scenario of India. India, the growing economy witnessing t...
The study focuses of on the paper in migration wage rates, working conditions in expenditure pattern...
Seasonal and circular migration is an important livelihood strategy for workers in developing countr...
This article concerns an important but overlooked means by which able-bodied poor people get hold of...
Rural households in many countries have used temporary or seasonal migration as a strategy to cope w...
In this paper, I examine the relation between seasonal labor migration in rural western India and so...
Abstract. This paper examines the socio-economic condition of the migrant workers in Kerala. We anal...
La servitude pour dette en Inde est souvent associée à la migration saisonnière et à l'extrême pauvr...
This paper examines the brick kiln industry in Tamil Nadu as a case study to highlight the discrepan...
Migrant labourers, free from rural bondage, are now bonded to other sources of debt, contracted from...
The economic reforms and neo-liberal policies of late nineties have brought about irreversible trans...
Taking a historical perspective this paper explores the phasing out of ‘bonded’ labour in agricultur...
Debt bondage is the focus of an international struggle for its abolition. Yet the literature finds t...
It is now recognised that migration is an integral part of the survival strategies of the poor; esp...
Rural households in many countries have used temporary or seasonal migration as a strategy to cope w...
Inbound migration is more relevant in the scenario of India. India, the growing economy witnessing t...
The study focuses of on the paper in migration wage rates, working conditions in expenditure pattern...
Seasonal and circular migration is an important livelihood strategy for workers in developing countr...
This article concerns an important but overlooked means by which able-bodied poor people get hold of...
Rural households in many countries have used temporary or seasonal migration as a strategy to cope w...
In this paper, I examine the relation between seasonal labor migration in rural western India and so...
Abstract. This paper examines the socio-economic condition of the migrant workers in Kerala. We anal...