Agricultural Labour In India

Agricutlural Labourers Constitute 26.15 Per Cent Of The Total Workforce In India. Starting With An Exhaustive Review Of The Existing Literature On Agricultural Labourers, From Pre Independence Times To The Present, This Book Concludes That There Has Been Little Improvement In Their Economic Situation. A Detailed Analysis Of Agricultural Labour In Two Selected Villages Of Purnia District In Bihar.

This book addresses the question of how so much growth and technical change has occurred in Indian agriculture while the position of agricultural workers has remained relatively unchanged. Focusing on the employees, this study describes an area in Southern India which is known for agricultural development. The author discusses the increase in numbers and proportion of agricultural workers, the stagnation and marginal decline of wage rates and earnings, the property-less status of agricultural workers, consumption, and indebtedness. An original contribution to the study of markets and development studies, this work shows how limited the changes in agriculture are in India.

Contents: Introduction, Agricultural Labour: A Historical Overview, Socio- Economic Problems of Contractual Agricultural Labourers, Concluding Observations and Policy Implications of the Study.

In the wake of the Green Revolution, the rapid modernisation of agricultural production has brought about changes in the economic and social position of poor rural Indian women. In this monograph Maria Mies and her two assistants draw on their close interaction with women in three villages of India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh to discuss the relationships between farm mechanisation, the displacement of men's labour, the growing involvement of poor women in casual agricultural labour and the prevailing perception of women as dependants, and to demonstrate that the integration of women int.

Social research study of living conditions of rural workers in India during the period from 1891 to 1946 - gives historical background of rural area social structures, and covers the role of UK, land ownership, land settlement, prices of agricultural products, economic implications and social implications of rural credit facilities for the self employed farmers, profits, wages and employment opportunities, etc. Bibliography pp. 286 to 291, references and statistical tables.