Match List I with List II
| LIST I Nature of work | LIST II Industry | ||
| A. | Working conditions | I. | Bidi making, Zari making |
| B. | Recruitment | II. | The Mines Act 1952 |
| C. | Management | III. | Jobbers |
| D. | Home based work | IV. | Taylorism |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
(A) Working conditions — this matches (II) The Mines Act 1952. The government passed laws to regulate working conditions; the Mines Act 1952 specifies the maximum hours a person can be made to work in a week, overtime pay for extra hours, and safety rules.
(B) Recruitment — this matches (III) Jobbers. In the past many factory workers got their jobs through contractors or jobbers, known as mistris in the Kanpur textile mills, who came from the workers’ own regions and communities.
(C) Management — this matches (IV) Taylorism. Frederick Winslow Taylor’s ‘Scientific Management’, also called Taylorism, is a system of organising work under management control: all work is broken into its smallest repetitive elements and divided between workers, who are timed to fulfil a target every day.
(D) Home based work — this matches (I) Bidi making, Zari making. Home-based work includes the manufacture of lace, zari or brocade, carpets, bidis and agarbattis, done mainly by women and children and paid on a piece-rate basis.
Note 1: The lines on Taylor’s ‘Scientific Management’ (Taylorism), in the section ‘How is work carried out?’ of the chapter ‘Change and Development in Industrial Society’, were there in the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2023. This portion has been deleted from the main text of the NCERT book (2025-26), though the chapter is still there and the book’s glossary still explains Taylorism.
Note 2: The original NTA paper printed List-II item (III) as ‘Jobless’ in place of ‘Jobbers’, so that no item matched recruitment; NTA dropped this question from its answer key. The item has been corrected to ‘Jobbers’, for the benefit of students.
NCERT (2025-26): “5.5 Working conditions … The government has passed a number of laws to regulate working conditions. Let us look at mining, where a number of people are employed. Coal mines alone employ 5.5 lakh workers. The Mines Act 1952, which has now been included in the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Condition Code, 2020, specifies the maximum number of hours a person can be made to work in a week, the need to pay overtime for any extra hours worked and safety rules.…” “5.3 How People Find Jobs … Job recruitment as a factory worker takes a different pattern. In the past, many workers got their jobs through contractors or jobbers. In the Kanpur textile mills, these jobbers were known as mistris, and were themselves workers. They came from the same regions and communities as the workers, but because they had the owner’s backing they bossed over the workers.…” “5.6 Home-based work … Home-based work is an important part of the economy. This includes the manufacture of lace, zari or brocade, carpets, bidis, agarbattis and many such products. This work is mainly done by women and children. An agent provides raw materials and also picks up the finished product. Home workers are paid on a piece-rate basis, depending on the number of pieces they make.…” “…Taylorism: System invented by Taylor, involving break up of work under management control.…” NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “Another way of increasing output is by organising work. An American called Frederick Winslow Taylor invented a new system in the 1890s, which he called ‘Scientific Management’. It is also known as Taylorism or industrial engineering. Under his system, all work was broken down into its smallest repetitive elements, and divided between workers. Workers were timed with the help of stopwatches and had to fulfil a certain target every day.…” |