Divya Varma and Nisarg Joshi speak to CivilSociety magazine. Click here to read.
About 93% of India’s workforce is informally employed, the largest in the world in terms of magnitude. Migrant workers, who move seasonally from villages to cities, form an extremely vulnerable segment among informal sector workers.
Engaged casually in sectors such as construction, manufacturing and services, informal migrant workers are often disadvantaged due to poor wages, erratic employment and hazardous work conditions. Lack of a domicile proof in their work destinations pushes them out of the scope of public provisioning and government entitlements. Social policy frameworks do not account for the constant mobility in their lives, while a steady dilution of labour protection systems have resulted in greater precarity in the world of work.
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Work Fair and Free conceived and incubated by Aajeevika Bureau, is a knowledge institution driven by a commitment to advance worker-centric knowledge and action, so that informal labour migration can become more secure and dignified. We aim to bring together grounded and rigorous research, insightful policy work, and innovative teaching and training, all supported and informed by impactful practice in urban industrial centres as well as rural migration clusters.
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