Employment Module 3

Employment Module 3

Open Ended

Ahmedabad is a prosperous city with its wealth based on the produce of more than 60 textile mills with a labour force of 1,50,000 workers employed in them. These workers had, over the course of the century, acquired a certain degree of income security. They had secure jobs with a living wage; they were covered by social security schemes protecting their health and old age. In the early 1980s, textile mills all over the country began to close down. In some places, such as Mumbai, the mills closed rapidly. In Ahmedabad, the process of closure was long drawn out and spread over 10 years.Over this period, approximately over 80,000 permanent workers and over 50,000 non-permanent workers lost their jobs and were driven to the informal sector. The city experienced an economic recession and public disturbances, especially communal riots. A whole class of workers was thrown back from the middle class into the informal sector, into poverty. There was widespread alcoholism and suicides, children were withdrawn from school and sent to work

Multiple Choice

1. Workers hired on permanent basis and also get social security benefits are called:

• Regular salaried workers

• Casual workers

• Self-employed workers

Multiple Select

An arrangement in which worker uses his own resources to make a living is called

• Self -employment

• Regular wage employment

• Casual employment

Multiple Choice

Find the odd man out

• owner of a shop

• cobbler

• cashier in Mother Dairy

• tuition master

Multiple Choice

An establishment with four hired workers is known as ....................sector establishment.

• formal

• informal

Multiple Choice

In Informal sector workers donot get-

• Regular income

• Social Security

• Updated Technology

• All of these