Super-exploitation of Adivasi Migrant Workers: The Political Economy of Migration from Southern Rajasthan to Gujarat

IF 0.4 Q4 ECONOMICS
Priyanka Jain, Amrita Sharma
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Abstract

This article offers a political economy account of labour migration of Adivasi workers from southern Rajasthan to growth centres in Gujarat. It unpacks the structural forces that shape this labour mobility, which erupted only as recently as 30 years back. The article focuses on three industries that are key employers of migrant workers—construction, textile as well as small hotels and restaurants in the Gujarati cities of Ahmedabad and Surat. It presents evidence on labour market segmentation and resulting unequal wage distribution between migrants in this corridor by their social group. This is complemented by an extensive mapping of the informal practices that violate applicable legal provisions found in these industry segments. Through these, the article teases out the mechanisms by which the community undergoes what in Marxian terms are referred to as surplus extraction and super-exploitation. The article finds that Gujarat’s economy utilizes the historically low socio-economic position of Adivasis for capitalist accumulation, such that the community’s poverty and disadvantaged position is reproduced inter-generationally, instead of being interrupted by their employment in the growth centres of the state. JEL: O15, J61, N35
对土著移民工人的超级剥削:南拉贾斯坦邦向古吉拉特邦移民的政治经济学
本文对阿迪瓦西工人从拉贾斯坦邦南部向古吉拉特邦增长中心的劳动力迁移进行了政治经济学描述。它揭示了形成这种劳动力流动的结构性力量,这种流动在30年前才刚刚爆发。这篇文章聚焦于三个主要雇佣移民工人的行业——建筑业、纺织业以及古吉拉特邦城市艾哈迈达巴德和苏拉特的小型酒店和餐馆。它提供了劳动力市场分割的证据,以及由此导致的该走廊移民之间按其社会群体的不平等工资分配。此外,还对这些行业中违反适用法律规定的非正式做法进行了广泛的摸底。通过这些,文章揭示了社区经历马克思主义所说的剩余开采和超级剥削的机制。文章发现,古吉拉特邦的经济利用阿迪瓦西斯历史上较低的社会经济地位进行资本主义积累,从而使社区的贫困和弱势地位在代际之间重现,而不是因他们在该邦增长中心的就业而中断。JEL:O15,J61,N35
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