ABSTRACT
After the discussion on interpersonal and intergroup inequality, the book moves on to intrapersonal inequality. These are the ethically unacceptable differences experienced by the same person over time. Among the differences workers face are those that emerge from the socio-economic milieu of the home and that of the workplace. These differences can be particularly challenging when workers continue to maintain their households in the village while they work in urban centres. This ensures they continuously move between two socio-economic milieus, resulting in forms of dualism. This chapter distinguishes between three different forms of dualism, prompted primarily by the distance between home and work: daily dualism, urbanized seasonal dualism, and structural dualism. It then uses primary surveys to take this conceptualization to the possibility of intrapersonal inequalities in short-term migration.
