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| What is foot-loose labour? |
The process in which agricultural labourers migrate from dry and arid regions to more fertile regions or to cities to do daily wage labour. The labour which moves from city to city in search of better work. The labourers who migrated from cities back to villages as part of the pandemic. The labour in village who work in fields during the season of cultivation and for remaining time do some miscelleneous work in villages. |
| The process in which agricultural labourers migrate from dry and arid regions to more fertile regions or to cities to do daily wage labour. |
| Migrant workers come mainly from drought-prone and less productive regions, and they go to work for part of the year on farms in the Punjab and Haryana, or on brick kilns in U.P., or construction sites in cities such as New Delhi or Bangalore. These migrant workers have been termed ‘footloose labour’ by Jan Breman, |
