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Discuss the dynamics of ‘migrant workers’ in India in the context of Corona pandemic.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 20 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

The migrant worker is not a residual category in Indian development but the mechanism through which capital obtains cheap, mobile and disposable labour. The Corona pandemic did not create this labour market; by halting it at four hours' notice on 24 March 2020, it made its machinery — recruitment through jobbers, circular streams, wage differentials…

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  • The structure of the migrant labour market
  • Recruitment: jobbers, advances and neo-bondage
  • The pandemic shock
  • Legal and policy dynamics
  • Conclusion

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