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Assaad, R and El-adaway, I H (2020) Enhancing the Knowledge of Construction Business Failure: A Social Network Analysis Approach. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06), 04020052.
Chew, Y T E, Atay, E and Bayraktaroglu, S (2020) Female Engineers’ Happiness and Productivity in Organizations with Paternalistic Culture. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Dhal, M (2020) Labor Stand: Face of Precarious Migrant Construction Workers in India. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: Labor stand; Migrant labor; Construction; Precarious work; Trade union; Government;
- ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001761
- Abstract:
The construction sector of India is the best representation of the informal workforce, which employs 36.12 million workers. These laborers flock together in a particular place on early morning every day in order to find a wage provider for them. It is a sale of labor for the day, where workers stand and make themselves available for a day to be hired by contractors or individual house owners. These places are known as labor stands, a stop for finding daily laborers for construction work, which is the distinctive addition of this research to the scant literature. This paper tries to explore the labor process among these unique informal construction workers’ labor assemblies consisting of 15,000 laborers per day and explore their employment conditions and labor relations. The paper also aims to examine the role of various actors of industrial relations such as trade unions and the government in regulating this employment relationship. The paper is based on a field study encompassing the transcribed records of observation, field interaction with 84 migrant construction workers, and 118 still photographs. The data were analyzed by using qualitative analysis software and adopting open thematic coding and later by developing categories and hierarchy and doing comparative analysis. The findings reveal that these laborers experience precariousness and are challenged by nonavailability of regular work, shortages of food, burden of large family size, and social evils of living in a slum, and also face being harassed by goons as well as contractors with minimal support from trade unions and government. Employers are apathetic toward their legal obligations. With labor stands being a primary source of labor supply to the construction sector, the findings of this paper will help in enriching labor relations and policy measures for its regulation.
Herrera, R F, Mourgues, C, Alarcón, L F and Pellicer, E (2020) Understanding Interactions between Design Team Members of Construction Projects Using Social Network Analysis. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Hoseini, E, Bosch-Rekveldt, M and Hertogh, M (2020) Cost Contingency and Cost Evolvement of Construction Projects in the Preconstruction Phase. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Jang, Y, Song, K, Park, M and Ahn, Y (2020) Classifying the Business Model Types of International Construction Contractors. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Jin, Z and Gambatese, J (2020) Exploring the Potential of Technological Innovations for Temporary Structures: A Survey Study. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Li, G, Zhang, G, Chen, C and Martek, I (2020) Empirical Bid or No Bid Decision Process in International Construction Projects: Structural Equation Modeling Framework. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Li, S, Wu, X, Wang, X and Hu, S (2020) Relationship between Social Capital, Safety Competency, and Safety Behaviors of Construction Workers. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Liang, Y, Ashuri, B and Sun, W (2020) Analysis of the Variability of Project Cost and Schedule Performance in the Design-Build Environment. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Liu, X, Wang, X, Zhao, Y and Xia, N (2020) Solving Workplace Deviant Behavior in Construction by Leader–Member Exchange and Leader–Member . Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06), 04020061.
Lu, H, Behbahani, S, Azimi, M, Matthews, J C, Han, S and Iseley, T (2020) Trenchless Construction Technologies for Oil and Gas Pipelines: State-of-the-Art Review. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Mohammadi, A, Amador-Jimenez, L and Nasiri, F (2020) Reliable, Effective, and Sustainable Urban Railways: A Model for Optimal Planning and Asset Management. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Sherafat, B, Ahn, C R, Akhavian, R, Behzadan, A H, Golparvar-Fard, M, Kim, H, Lee, Y, Rashidi, A and Azar, E R (2020) Automated Methods for Activity Recognition of Construction Workers and Equipment: State-of-the-Art Review. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Shoieb, K, Serror, M H and Marzouk, M (2020) Web-Based Tool for Interoperability among Structural Analysis Applications. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Yao, M, Wang, F, Chen, Z and Ye, H (2020) Optimal Incentive Contract with Asymmetric Cost Information. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Zhang, M, Cao, Z, Yang, Z and Zhao, X (2020) Utilizing Computer Vision and Fuzzy Inference to Evaluate Level of Collision Safety for Workers and Equipment in a Dynamic Environment. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).
Zhang, X and Tariq, S (2020) Failure Mechanisms in International Water PPP Projects: A Public Sector Perspective. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(06).