Rural Labour Mobility in Times of Structural Transformation

1. Introduction: Rural Labor Dynamics and Mobility in Times of Deepening Structural Transformation
D. Narasimha Reddy, Kailash Sarap

Part I. Structural Transformation and Labour Dynamics

2. Structural Transformation and Alternative Pathways to the Lewis Turning Point
Rizwanul Islam

3. Labor and Employment in the Emerging Rural-Urban Continuum in India: Toward a Cohesive Policy
D. Narasimha Reddy

4. Chinese Land Institutions: Peasant Workers, Industrialization, and Urbanization
Jinqing Cao, Yuqin Huang, Ming Gao

5. “Politics of Scale”: The Shift from Small Migrant Farmers to Big Organizational Agriculture in Shanghai’s Suburbs
Ye Min

6. Craft Clusters and Work in Rural India: An Exploration
Keshab Das

7. Casualization and Shift of Rural Workers to Non-farm Activities
Partha Saha, Sher Verick

8. Expanding Livelihood Strategies for Marginalized Communities in India: Opportunities and Challenges
Partha Pratim Sahu

Part II. Rural: Urban Labour Mobility

9. The Changing Nature of Rurality: Reframing the Discourse on Migration and Commuting
S. Chandrasekhar, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

10. Out-migration from the Hill Region of Uttarakhand: Magnitude, Challenges, and Policy Options
Rajendra P. Mamgain, D. Narasimha Reddy

11. Migration and Household Labor Use for Adopting Climatic Stress: A Study of Drought-Affected Areas in Odisha
Basanta K. Sahu

12. Migration and Development: Rural-to-Urban Temporary Migration to Gujarat
Indira Hirway, Udai Bhan Singh

13. The Life and Times of Migrant Workers in Chennai
J. Jeyaranjan

14. The Uncivil and De-institutionalizing Labor Relations of Accumulation Through Disuse: The Case of the Brick Kiln Industry in Telangana
Tathagata Sengupta, G. Vijay

Nyckelord: Economics, Labor Economics, Development Economics, Development Studies, Asian Economics, Migration