Brokered livelihoods: Debt, Labour Migration and Development in Tribal Western India

By D. Mosse, S. Gupta, Mona G. Mehta, Vidya Shah, J. Rees, Kribp Project Team. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Internal Migration, Poverty and Development in Asia: Including the Excluded (2006, background): “While some have argued that migration provides an escape from traditional structures of caste-based oppression in villages and gives poor labourers some bargaining power vis-à-vis their traditional employers, others maintain that structures of oppression are reproduced through labour contracting arr”
• Social Capital as Obstacle to Development: Brokering Land, Norms, and Trust in Rural India (2015, background): “…commission (Reddy & Haragopal, 1985; Srivastava & Chaturvedi, 1986), peddling influence and patronage (Plunkett, 1984), brokering labor (Breman, 1996; Mosse et al., 2002) or otherwise acting as market intermediaries (Bayly, 1983, pp. 371, 412), few doubt that such well-connected mediators use…”
• Seasonal Migration for Livelihoods in India: Coping,Accumulation and Exclusion (2003, background): “It is now recognised that migration is a part of the normal livelihood strategy of the poor ( Mc Dowell and De Haan, 1997 ) and does not occur only during times of emergency or distress.”
• Migration and Human Development in India (2009, background): “Migrants work long hours in harsh conditions; injuries are common and there is inadequate medical assistance or compensation (Mosse et al 2002).”
• Caste and Tribe Inequality: Evidence from India, 1983–1999 (2006, background): “As a result, most of the ST currently have to migrate seasonally to make ends meet, because of erratic agro-ecological conditions and the lack of other employment opportunities in their villages (Mosse et al. 2002; Rogaly et al. 2002).”