Idle labour in village India
Ahuja, Kanta
Idle labour in village India C.3 - New Delhi Manohar Publications 1978 - 160 p. : ill.
The present study is based upon an intensive field survey undertaken by the author in six villages of Rajasthan during 1971-72. The villages were selected purposively to reflect different agro-climatic, demographic and economic characteristics within the state. Specifically, the study is a detailed labour-time disposition survey. In the process of collecting this information, complete data on the productive activities of the household was also collected. With the help of this data, it became possible to analyse the employment patterns of the households, in relation to various other economic characteristics.
By the very nature of the information collected, a great deal of work involves descriptive reporting of information. This description is used for testing the surplus labour hypo thesis. But more importantly, the focus is on obtaining different measures for the same objective situation in order to find out the extent to which the measure would be sensitive to the definitional categories used.
It is in this context, that not only have different criteria such as time, income and availability for work been used but even within the same criterion, a change in the definition is found to result in very different conclusions. For example, the time criterion can be interpreted in more than one way. This is done in Chapter 2 and the results are documented in detail.
Labour and labouring classes
331.111 AHU
Idle labour in village India C.3 - New Delhi Manohar Publications 1978 - 160 p. : ill.
The present study is based upon an intensive field survey undertaken by the author in six villages of Rajasthan during 1971-72. The villages were selected purposively to reflect different agro-climatic, demographic and economic characteristics within the state. Specifically, the study is a detailed labour-time disposition survey. In the process of collecting this information, complete data on the productive activities of the household was also collected. With the help of this data, it became possible to analyse the employment patterns of the households, in relation to various other economic characteristics.
By the very nature of the information collected, a great deal of work involves descriptive reporting of information. This description is used for testing the surplus labour hypo thesis. But more importantly, the focus is on obtaining different measures for the same objective situation in order to find out the extent to which the measure would be sensitive to the definitional categories used.
It is in this context, that not only have different criteria such as time, income and availability for work been used but even within the same criterion, a change in the definition is found to result in very different conclusions. For example, the time criterion can be interpreted in more than one way. This is done in Chapter 2 and the results are documented in detail.
Labour and labouring classes
331.111 AHU