ABSTRACT
This study examines the incidence of wage discrimination and work-related insecurity in unorganised establishments through a social-class analysis, further examined across migration status. It finds that the wageworkers belonging to the socially-deprived castes of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) are at a disadvantage vis-à-vis their non-SC/ST counterparts in terms of their experience of wage discrimination and exposure to various work-related insecurities — migration adds further to this disadvantage. This study is based on primary data collected from unorganised establishments located in the urban segment of Punjab, one of the prosperous states of India. Sample size of the study is 300 wageworkers.
