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Title:
AGRICULTURAL LABOUR AND RURAL LABOUR RELATIONS IN WEST BENGAL

Authors:
Dr. Kakali Barua

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Dr. Kakali Barua
Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi

MLA 8
Barua, Dr. Kakali. "AGRICULTURAL LABOUR AND RURAL LABOUR RELATIONS IN WEST BENGAL." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 6, no. 7, July 2021, pp. 2105-2127, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i07.006. Accessed July 2021.
APA 6
Barua, D. (2021, July). AGRICULTURAL LABOUR AND RURAL LABOUR RELATIONS IN WEST BENGAL. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 6(7), 2105-2127. Retrieved from doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i07.006
Chicago
Barua, Dr. Kakali. "AGRICULTURAL LABOUR AND RURAL LABOUR RELATIONS IN WEST BENGAL." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 6, no. 7 (July 2021), 2105-2127. Accessed July, 2021. doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i07.006.

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Abstract:
This paper explores rural labour relations in West Bengal. In an attempt to understand rural labour relations, we focus on credit in the labour market and to what extent agricultural labourers who take credit (in the form of wage advance) from their employers have the freedom to work for different employers. Our results show that many who took wage advancement against future commitment of labour was associated with weak bargaining power, working on priority basis, involving longer working hours and underpayment of work. Though, no bondage due to debts was reported from the villages, agricultural labourers had the freedom to sell his/ her labour power freely in the market. But given large scale poverty and unemployment, formal freedom of free sale of labour power to a large section of agricultural labourers was still limited in rural Bengal.

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