Brick kiln work: Labour migration for a seasonal work

Labour migration into informal sector has become an alternative livelihood strategy of searching livelihood for fulfillment of survival needs. Neo-liberal free market policy displaces workforces from their natural resources and livelihood and commodification of labour power occurs by the rapid growth of global capitalist market structure. In a specific case of brick kiln worker in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu there is an interesting domain of labor activity which witnesses seasonal labour as a key source of income for poor agrarian sections and socio-economically marginalized populations. Shrinking of agrarian work and lack of job opportunities in local areas force people to migrates into urban and semi-urban areas for finding a job. Thus, this paper has focused brick Kiln work is a seasonal work which extracts agrarian laour forces for seasonal working activities. It has highlighted the brick kiln migrant workers from KBK region (undivided Kalahandi, Bolangir and Koraput districts known as KBK) of Odisha to southern states like, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu, and analyzed the process of labour transition into informal sector.