COMPARISON OF WORKING CONDITIONS OF CASH WAGE AND SHARE WAGE PERMANENT FARM SERVANTS IN HARYANA

Abstract

The permanent farm servant is key component of agricultural hired labour in Haryana. In closed village labour market, permanent farm servants are employed by generally big farmers for one year from May to April. There are cash wage as well as share wage permanent farm servants in Haryana.  The main objective of our study is to analyze and compare the working conditions of these both types of permanent farm servants. The analysis of working conditions of share wage and cash wage permanent farm servants is based on the primary data of 220 randomly selected permanent farm servants from twenty-two villages of Haryana. One village is randomly selected from each district of Haryana. The study has tried to find out that there is any difference in working conditions of permanent farm servants on the basis of type of contract. The study found some differences in working conditions of cash wage and share wage permanent farm servants. However, the cash wage permanent farm servants enjoy all perks as share wage permanent farm servants avail and even some additional perks in Haryana.