Thus unlike the West industrial labour in India has mainly been drawn from amongst the Landless agricultural labourers. The immediate cause of this city-ward migration of the rural people have been:
(1) Increasing pressure of population on land on account of trhe decline of cottage industries;
(2 ) Increasing number of land less agricultural labourers which force the to earn their livelihood elsewhere ;. (3) The ill-treatment of the high caste people towards the scheduled castes and other depressed classes, and the social disabilities from which these later people suffer:
(4) Family quarrels and worries ; and
(5) Indebtedness of the people.
These confirm the views of the Royal commission on Labour that labourers do not come to the cities for its attraction of a better way of life but economic pressures in the village force them to move. The great majority of these workers were at heart villagers as they were brought up in the villages. They had the village traditions and retained contact with the villagers.
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