An account of workforce particularly those of migrant workers within the capitalist setting in pluralistic societies is likely unfruitful in its analysis unless it is done by using a critical perspective in social or political science. In the past critical theories are predominantly (neo)-Marxist; now days, earth democratic theoretical concepts may be of valuable analytical tools in working out the task. This paper is a preliminary attempt to making such an account using the earth democracy. It is indicative that the core of the problems prevailing among migrants workers is inherently connected with the incapacity of state-led development and incompatibility of capitalist design of economic development in pluralist Malaysia.