Changing structure of rural workforce and economic activates in Assam: Ensuring wellbeing or struggle for sustenance
By: Tamuli, Mondira
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BookPublisher: Contributions to Indian Social Science Description: 40(2), Apr-Jun, 2021: p.319-335.
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Contributions to Indian Social ScienceSummary: Assam, situated in the North-Eastern region of India is fundamentally an agrarian economy where more than 70 per cent of the total work force depends on agriculture, providing more than 53 per cent of its total employment. But, in recent years, there have been significant changes in the structure of the rural workforce and rural economic activities of the state. In certain contexts, the shift from agriculture is a desirable short term measure and is primarily done to enhance income. Available literature indicates that the traditional sources of livelihood are facing challenges and hence, wage-labor becomes the leading source of employment and livelihood in the rural areas of the state. On the one hand, the workforce engaged in agricultural activities is facing distress, whereas on the other hand, non-agricultural activities are not able to absorb those moving out from the primary sector. Therefore, an attempt has been made to understand the mechanism of transition that has been taken place both in the agricultural and non-agricultural activities in the rural areas of the state, using evidence from the Census of India, National Sample Survey (NSS) and Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). – Reproduced
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Assam, situated in the North-Eastern region of India is fundamentally an agrarian economy where more than 70 per cent of the total work force depends on agriculture, providing more than 53 per cent of its total employment. But, in recent years, there have been significant changes in the structure of the rural workforce and rural economic activities of the state. In certain contexts, the shift from agriculture is a desirable short term measure and is primarily done to enhance income. Available literature indicates that the traditional sources of livelihood are facing challenges and hence, wage-labor becomes the leading source of employment and livelihood in the rural areas of the state. On the one hand, the workforce engaged in agricultural activities is facing distress, whereas on the other hand, non-agricultural activities are not able to absorb those moving out from the primary sector. Therefore, an attempt has been made to understand the mechanism of transition that has been taken place both in the agricultural and non-agricultural activities in the rural areas of the state, using evidence from the Census of India, National Sample Survey (NSS) and Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). – Reproduced
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