About the Book: Migration of Worker & Urban Informal Sector
the importance of urban informal sector in providing employment to the migrant
workers from rural areas has been assessed in an objective manner in the book.
It is found that the rural migrants who join the urban informal sector do not
consider it as a temporary stop-gap employment but as a permanent source of
livelihood on the basis of in-depth study of five class-l towns, five villages
and a coal mine region of Orissa. It comes to conclusion that rural-urban
migration as a tool to alleviate rural poverty cannot easily be challenged.