Wage Determination of Unorganised Labour in Construction Industry

in Construction Industry S N Guha Thakurta This article attempts to determine the main forces behind the movement of wages of unskilled male labourers engaged in the road and building construction projects on the basis of a field survey carried out by the present writer in the union territory of Tripura during December 1967 to November 1968, It also tries to compare the results with all-India data on the basis of published all-India data.