Social Scientist. v 16, no. 177 (Feb 1988) p. 58.


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self-employment and Qp^tigiicultural activity, these would be muchredjy^} y'l^wl activity' ^pnpejpt of worker had been adopted instead of the 'current week' concept. A further reduction would have taken place if the denominator was 'usually iictjve males'. For this reason, household per-capita incomes in the ydevalit households is likely to have increased much less than *»he per-worker inconw increases recorded here. Such a change fn tjhe worker concept would result in declining per-c^ita incomes of the unorganised sector after the mid-seventies-and this wo^ld be true of both its agricultural and non-agriculturl) segments. This is^ of some importance to note because it is theyperiod sin^e the mid-seventies which has seen the most impresrive growth in per-worker incomes in the organised sector and also (he b^lk of the lelativ^ shift of the work force within the nn^ orga^is^ sectgy frop^ agriculture to noil-agriculture.

(f) While tjhe growth of unorganised sector incomes per worker does not apper to be correlated with the growth of incomes in the organised sector, it 4oe& appear to be correlated with gr^Mti of incomes of the self-employed agriculturists. During th^ period from the mid-sixties to the mids-seventies, incomes p^r wori|c^ in ^gricuItUTe were constant but the share of the s^lf-en?ployed agriculturists w^S falling sharply in the agricultural work force while their share in agricultural incomes was rising, also sharply. It would thus appear that the impetus for growth of unorganised non-agricultural incomes comes less from the growth of orgwi-"^ed sieetcy incomes tfian from the growth of th^ incomes of the relat^y ric^ in agriculture. With shifting terms of trade against agriculture sjm^e tt^e mid-seventies, this impetus seems to have been lost somewhat.

(g) Simultaneously, there fe much evidence that labour absorgti

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There is the basis of a fundamental contradiction iflr the ooGrtr^ "tset" ween tfe6 fact, noted byDiatidel^ that^ey-capita agricultural-ii^on^ b^ve remained unchanged over the last forty years and the official view, based on pelectedN^^^y^jr^ur^^r^atA^h^sbeen ^ignifi^nt dwiine in



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