Poor Helpless Workforce: Problems and Reasons of Street Vendors in Virudhunagar Town

Abstract

Self employment has become a progressively more popular subject of study, not just in economics, but also in Social Work, Sociology and Anthropology. There are many self-employee works in our country working for their own livelihood. The most frequently and regularly they have to work to earn their daily cash. After the implementation of Liberalisation, Privatization and Globalization there are several changes in the system and particularly with respect to the self-employment belonging to Street Vendors. With this background, the present study intended to study in poor helpless workforce: problem and reason of street vendors in Virudhunagar Town. There many Street Vendors in the heart of Virudhunagar town, hence the researchers used convenient sampling method to select 100 respondents for the present study and the study is descriptive in nature. The findings of the study are elaborated in the full paper. The government and non-governmental organization has to play a crucial role for the development of Street Vendors. Further few suggestions were also given to enhance their street vendors.