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Migration, Crises And Social Transformation In India Since The 1990s, Smriti Rao, Vamsi Vakulabharanam
Migration, Crises And Social Transformation In India Since The 1990s, Smriti Rao, Vamsi Vakulabharanam
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Since liberalization, urban migration in India has increased in quantity, but also changed in quality, with permanent marriage migration and temporary, circular employment migration rising, even as permanent economic migration remains stagnant. We understand internal migration in India to be a re-ordering of productive and reproductive labor that signifies a deep transformation of society. We argue that this transformation is a response to three overlapping crises: an agrarian crisis, an employment crisis, and a crisis of social reproduction. These are not crises for capitalist accumulation, which they enable. Rather, they make it impossible for a majority of Indians to achieve …
Reproductive Work And Female Labor Force Participation In Rural India, Sirisha C. Naidu, Smriti Rao
Reproductive Work And Female Labor Force Participation In Rural India, Sirisha C. Naidu, Smriti Rao
Economics and Global Studies Department Faculty Works
The current debate over female labor force participation in India has failed to sufficiently account for the reproductive work of women. Using NSS data on reproductive labor, we investigate the possibility that a “reproductive squeeze” raises the opportunity costs of labor force participation for women. A variety of multinomial logit regressions reveal a robust positive relationship between the shares of non-discretionary food and non-food expenditure and the likelihood of performing reproductive labor, relative to being in the labor force. We also find that an indicator of greater social provisioning by the state is positively correlated with rural women’s labor force …