Daily Labour Market workers (DLMW) in Moradabad city of Uttar Pradesh, India: A causal analysis Ali Nazim1*, Khan Jabir Hasan2 1Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 2Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh *e-mail: amu.nazim786@gmail.com
Online published on 30 May, 2021. Abstract The eradication of poverty and expansion of productive employment to ensure work for all have been significant concerns of development policy throughout the past six decades in India. However, while the country has several strides after independence, the problem of poverty and unemployment or underemployment persists. The process of globalisation initiated since the early 1990s and it has also resulted in certain trends in labour markets, which have put the employment issue centre stage, while the economy has grown at an average rate of about 6 per cent. The new boulevards of employment opportunities have been opened, but it creates vast discrepancies. Most of the generated employment is informal in nature and poor in quality with low productivity. The benefits of high growth have accrued mainly to the better-off sections with higher education and skill endowments. Consequently, inequalities have widened out and susceptibilities have grown-up which results from insecurities of livelihoods and gives social protection to very a few workers. The present study attempts to analyse the causes of engagement of workers in daily labour markets. Therefore, current work was based on a primary source of data collected through a field survey carried out in 2017. Focused group discussion (FGD) has also been undertaken for the present work to get better information regarding this work. In this work, ‘questionnaire ’was used as tools for the collection of the above information. Firstly, three pilot surveys were made to identify the areas of concentration of daily labour market workers to collect information regarding the present study. Simple random and purposive sampling has been used for data collection. For the analysis of collected data, simple descriptive techniques have been used. The results showed that among the 677 workers, about three-fourth proportion reported as daily commuters. While, among the causes behind the engagement of workers in daily labour markets, economic reasons were predominance. Top Key Words Worker, Daily Labour Market, Causes and Moradabad City. Top |