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Rural Labour Market Analysis

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This paper analyses the organisation and functioning of rural labour market in India. The rural labour market has been the crucial source of labour in the rural production process, in particular and labour required for the industrialisation process. The rural labour market, theoretically, formed with proletariat class in a capitalist agrarian society, a class whose only source of income is selling labour power in wage labour market. However, the presence of peasantry especially in developing countries, like India complicates the formation of the rural labour market. The crucial determining factors of the peasantry to participate in rural labour market, especially within the capitalist agrarian framework are two folds, first, the existing land …show more content…

Within the capitalist production system, the capitalist farmers and differentiated peasant farming co-exists, with a large population of asset-less labour class. Though there are forces of capitalist tendencies which try to dethrone the peasantry with the help of state, and create a well developed market for wage labour at the disposal of rural and industrial capital. The peasantry is neither dead not disappearing as perceived and continues to be a tenacious, enduring social category, having existed continually under different historical social formations (Ramachandran, 2016). On persistence of peasantry, Kautsky (1988) …show more content…

As mentioned, the most prominent source of labour in rural labour market is the class of manual workers, along with complicated role played by the peasantry. Second, how the demand for labour is generated in rural production and elsewhere and which agrarian classes are the instrumental in generating demand for labour primarily in crop production, given the fact that non-farm sector’s contribution in generating labour demand is still less than that of farm sector. In this context, this study would try to understand various aspects of labour use of peasant farming which has strong bearing on formation and functioning of rural labour market both in agricultural and non-agricultural sector. The role of women labour of the peasant households in the peasant production system and in the rural labour market requires special importance. Third, importantly, comments on peasant household economy whether the peasant economic system has been disappearing from the rural scene and leading peasantry to exhibit different class relations in different production sphere.
We shall study the formation of rural labour market with the help of primary data collected from Ananthavaram, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. The village was purposively selected for a resurvey as it was surveyed by P. Sundarayya in 1974. Ananthavaram is situated in the agro-ecological zone called

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