Regarding Industrialisation. Choose the correct statement.
A. Industrialisation has no relation with the phenomenon of urbanisation.
B. Industrialisation is based on the division of labour.
C. Industrialisation has only positive consequences.
D. Industrialisation removes gender-based wage discrimination
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Only B is the correct statement
A. Industrialisation has no relation with the phenomenon of urbanisation. Incorrect. Thinkers like Marx, Weber and Durkheim associated urbanisation with industry: factories draw workers into towns, and cities grow around them.
B. Industrialisation is based on the division of labour. Correct. Industrialisation involves a detailed division of labour. People often do not see the end result of their work, because each produces only one small part of a product.
C. Industrialisation has only positive consequences. Incorrect. Factory work is often repetitive and exhausting, and Marx called the worker’s state alienation, when people do not enjoy work and do it only to survive. So the consequences are not only positive.
D. Industrialisation removes gender-based wage discrimination Incorrect. In industrial society women often get paid less than men for similar work, so the gap in wages has not gone away.
NCERT (2025-26): “5.1 Images of Industrial Society … Thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim associated a number of social features with industry, such as urbanisation, the loss of face-to-face relationships that were found in rural areas where people worked on their own farms or for a landlord they knew, and their substitution by anonymous professional relationships in modern factories and workplaces. Industrialisation involves a detailed division of labour. People often do not see the end result of their work because they are producing only one small part of a product. The work is often repetitive and exhausting. Yet, even this is better than having no work at all, i.e., being unemployed. Marx called this situation alienation, when people do not enjoy work, and see it as something they have to do only in order to survive, and even that survival depends on whether the technology has room for any human labour.” “…Often social inequality and income inequality overlap, for example, in the domination of upper caste men in well-paying professions like medicine, law or journalism. Women often get paid less than men for similar work.” |