The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Rural Sanitation Workers in Haryana

The Covid-19 pandemic caused significant changes in the world of work. While pandemic-induced lockdowns caused disruptions in the employment conditions and earnings of wage earners in general, Covid-19 had a differentiated impact across different groups of workers (Bonini, Mukherjee, and Roig 2020; Jaga and Ollier- Malaterre 2022; Kalhan, Singh, and Moghe 2020, 2023; Oxfam India 2021; and Sethu and Thangaraj 2021).1 In a multi-country survey on the labour-market fallout of Covid-19, Soares and Berg (2022) reported that workers who were vulnerable in the labour market saw their vulnerability rise as a result of the pandemic.