Assistant Professor, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Social Science centre, Pune
Online published on 12 February, 2015.
The present study was carried out with Vadar community women's working in Construction workers, domestic helpers working in the unorganized sector. An attempt has been made in the paper to understand the socio-economic condition of Vadar community women's laborers, nature of their work, their working conditions, wage pattern, wage discrimination and other difficulties faced by them at their work place. Multistage stratified random sampling technique was applied to collect data from 100 women laborers from urban area in Pune City.
Findings show that majority of the migrant Vadar community women's were engaged in the construction and were only employed in unskilled and low paying jobs as domestic workers, laborers and helpers. The conditions of work in the unorganized sector were unsatisfactory and the problems confronted by them were acute. And that their illiteracy, poverty and indebtedness forced them to work for lower wages and under unjust conditions.
