Johannes Cornelis "Jan" Breman (born 24 July 1936, in

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) is a Dutch sociologist and an emeritus professor of the

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. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at

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(ISS) on 29 October 2009. His inaugural lecture was entitled: The Great Transformation in a Globalized Perspective. He is a Fellow of the

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. In 1988 Breman became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a member of

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in 1989. He has been known for the concept "footloose labour" in India. Footloose labour consists of those proletariats who are pushed out of agriculture labour market, hence depend on casual labour. They have to engage in multiple occupations to sustain themselves. Due to rural inequality they have to do seasonal migration to well off states such as Punjab and Haryana. This class of free wage labourers, especially after mid-1990s, are called "footloose labour".

Selected works

* Breman, Jan et al. (2019).
The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View
'. California: University of California Press. . * Breman, Jan (2013). ''At work in the informal economy of India. A perspective from the bottom up''. New Delhi, Oxford University Press.

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Discussing Jan Breman's book, talking about the poverty and migration in India. 1936 births Living people Dutch sociologists Members of Academia Europaea Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam {{Netherlands-academic-bio-stub