GEOG 3050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Agricultural Workers Organization, Barely Breaking Even, Unearned Income
18 Apr 2017
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Ethnographic method an anthropological and qualitative mode of inquiry. Desakota and its relevance to the calcutta region. Land redistributed by the left front government in west. Laws/rules around land and squatting implemented at the local level. Opening up of the indian economy to foreign investment, in other words called globalization and liberalization. Stereotype of a city that is inhabited by the urban poor. City requiem: migrants and informality in india and asia. Lewis model, harris todaro model conceptualized migration from rural to urban areas. Shrinking share of agriculture and rural gdp to national gdp in india. Lack if irrigation, poor agricultural productivity, dependence on monsoon and single crop strengthens pressures to migrate to urban areas. A circular mobility of labour is also a consequence of unbalanced resource endowments and regional development. Net transfer of slack labour from economically depressed areas to more developed areas.
