Title: Unemployment, migration and human security of daily-wage labour: a case of labour market Chauraha in Lucknow Town

Authors: Rajani Kant Pandey

Addresses: Department of Political Science, Ram Dayalu Singh College, Muzaffarpur, India

Abstract: This study is based on primary data for unveiling the reality of labour chauraha and the labourer who serve their labour for survival. Working hour extension is the site of exploitation. Fear to be unpaid¹. This fear makes them insecure and vulnerable on various grounds from economic to health condition. It also hampers their work potential. The victims of neoliberalism have two categories: visible victims² and non-visible victims.³ Visible victims belong to scheduled caste and tribes group while non-visible victims basically belong to the general and other backward castes. Visible victims are perpetual sufferer while the non-visible are new category that pushed towards the periphery of development and opportunity axe. Daily wage labours are facing insecurity in constitutive ways in front of physical and health issues. It is like an insecurity trap⁴ in which they are unable to go away.

Keywords: neoliberalism; fear to be unpaid; insecurity trap.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRCS.2021.116569

International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 2021 Vol.8 No.3, pp.182 - 189

Received: 05 Jul 2020
Accepted: 17 Jul 2020
Published online: 28 Jul 2021 *

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