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Job recruitment as a factory worker takes a different pattern. Explain this pattern.
Concept: How People Find Jobs
Explain the 'Scientific Management' system. What shift from Scientific Management took place in the 1980s?
Concept: How is Work Carried Out?
What is the difference between a strike and the major manufacturing process carried out in a lockout? Discuss the famous strike of Bombay Textile Mills of 1982.
Concept: Strikes and Unions
Home-based work is an important part of the economy. Explain by giving an example.
Concept: Home-based Work
In every society, some people have a greater share .of valued resources-money, property, education, health and power- than others. These social resources can be divided into three forms of capital.
Which of the following is not a form of capital?
Concept: What is Social About Social Inequality and Exclusion?
Which of the following features is not an element of the policy of Apartheid?
Concept: Caste and Tribe – Systems Justifying and Perpetuating Inequality
Assertion (A): The government has passed a number of laws to regulate the working conditions in coal mines.
Reason (R): Many contractors maintain proper register of workers and take responsibility for accidents giving all possible benefits.
Concept: Working Conditions
Assertion (A): To call a strike is a difficult decision.
Reason (R): Managers may try to use substitute labour. Workers also find it hard to sustain themselves without wages.
Concept: Strikes and Unions
Define work in the organised sector.
Concept: Industrialisation in India
What is the basic task of a manager?
Concept: How is Work Carried Out?
Who wrote the book 'Sultana's Dream'? Why is this a remarkable story?
Concept: Struggle for Women’s Equality and Rights
Read the passage given and answer the question:
| The following observations were made by G.B. Pant during a speech that moved the constitution of the Advisory Committee on fundamental rights, minorities, etc. "We have to take particular care of the Depressed Classes, the Scheduled Castes, and the Backward Classes ...we must do all we can to bring them up to the general level..the strength of the chain is measured by the weakest link of it and so until every link is fully revitalised, we will not have a healthy body politic. Recent years have seen renewed debate about the States' decisions on reservation to this section." |
- Based on the passage above, who are referred to as the weakest link of the society?
- Why should and how can this weakest link be fully revitalised?
- Define 'Secularisation of caste'
Concept: Caste and Tribe – Systems Justifying and Perpetuating Inequality
Discuss the phenomenon of 'Time slavery' in the IT sector.
Concept: How is Work Carried Out?
Stereotypes fix whole groups into single ______ categories, they refuse to recognize the ______ across individuals and across context or across time.
Concept: What is Social About Social Inequality and Exclusion?
Major difference between developing and developed countries is in the number of people in ______ salaried employment.
Concept: Industrialisation in India
| In Modern Foods, which was set up by the government to make healthy bread available at cheap prices, and which was the first company to be privatised, 60% of the workers were forced to retire in the first five years. |
Based on the given passage, answer the following question.
- What do you mean by disinvestment?
- How did disinvestment impact the workers?
Concept: Industrialisation in India
| “In Maruti Udyog Ltd. two cars roll off the assembly line every minute. Workers get only 45 minutes rest in the entire day - two tea breaks of 7.5 minutes each and one lunch break of half an hour. Most of them are exhausted by the age of 40 and take voluntary retirement.” |
Based upon above passage, answer the following question.
What, according to you, is the impact of the factory‟s working condition on the workers and on the factory?
Concept: How is Work Carried Out?
“If hard labour were such a good thing the rich would keep it all for themselves. All over the world, back-breaking work like stone breaking, digging, carrying heavy weights, pulling rickshaws or carts is invariably done by the poor. And yet they rarely improve their life chances.” Which social phenomena is reflected in this proverb? Give any two characteristics of this phenomena.
Concept: What is Social About Social Inequality and Exclusion?
Assertion (A): People often do not see the end result of their work because they are producing only one small part of a product.
Reason(R): Industrialisation involves a detailed division of labour where people do not enjoy work, and see it as something they have to do only in order to survive.
Concept: Images of Industrial Society
Assertion(A): The everydayness of social inequality and exclusion often make them appear inevitable, almost natural.
Reason(R): The common-sense understanding is that the poor and marginalised are where they are because they are lacking in ability, or haven’t tried hard enough to improve their situation.
Concept: Introduction to Pattern of Social Inquality and Exclusion
