Discuss the issues faced by 'migrating labourers'
Following are some of the possible causes of migrating of labourers:
(i) Commercialisation of agriculture has been responsible for the growth of migrant agricultural labour. Seasonal demand for these labourers increase in Green Revolution areas.
(ii) A pattern of seasonal migration is seen and thousands of workers circulate between their home villages and more prosperous areas.
(iii) Labourers also migrate due to the increasing inequalities in rural areas. Migrant workers come from drought prove and less productive regions. They go to work for part of the year on agricultural farms in the Punjab and Haryana or in brick kilns in U.P. or Construction sites in cities such as Delhi and Bangalore etc.
(iv) Jan Breman has termed these migrant workers as 'Footloose labour' However, these landless workers do not have many rights and are also denied minimum wages. This large-scale circulation of labour has had many important effects on rural society. Women are also coming us as the chief source of agricultural labour. It is leading to the 'Feminisation' of agricultural labour force.
