Action research is central to CLRA’s mission. Before carrying out an intervention, we document the material conditions of workers to understand their socioeconomic and cultural realities. For over a decade, our research has championed the rights of seasonal migrants in western and central India, especially in informal sectors like agriculture, construction, and brick kilns. These sectors often obscure poor working conditions due to inadequate data. Each year, CLRA publishes in-depth studies and articles to shed light on the challenges faced by these workers and to advocate for their rights.
2021 – Present
2011 – 2020
Footloose in Farms: A Study on Tribal Migrant Agricultural Workers – 2020 (ENGLISH)
2001 – 2010
- Why Children of Migrant Farm Workers in Gujarat Remain Out of School – IndiaSpend – Dec 2023
- Labour Union ‘Forces’ South Gujarat Coop Sugar Factories to Offer 18% Wage Hike – Counterview – Aug 2022
- Neo-Bondage, Not Sharecropping – Rejoinder in Economic & Political Weekly – Oct-Nov 2022
- Not Schemes but Basic Security: What the SC Judgment on Migrant Workers Overlooks – The Wire – Jul 2021
- Rooted in mistrust? Covid-19’s march into rural India is a very different ball game – Counterview – May 2021
- Gujarat: Migrant Sugarcane Harvesters Are Forced to Work Through the Pandemic – The Wire – Apr 2020
- More Than Half of Construction Workers in Surat Are Homeless – NewsClick – May 2019
- Budget 2019: Pension Scheme for Unorganised Workers is Year Another Illusion – The Wire – Feb 2019
- The Bonded Sugarcane Harvesters of South Gujarat – The Wire – May 2018
- Sugarcane Harvesters in South Gujarat are Trapped in Bondage, One Generation After Another – NewsClick – May 2018
- Political Economy of Electricity Theft in Rural Rajasthan: A Case Study from Rajasthan – Economic & Political Weekly – Feb 2005
- Relocation in Kutch: Bridging Old Fault Lines – Economic & Political Weekly – Jul 2001
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