Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Change and Development in industrial Society

Question:

Match the industrial concepts given in List - I with their characteristics in List - II.

List – I Industrial concepts

List – II Characteristics

(A) Bombay Textile Strike

(I) Extended working hours

(B) Flexi-time

(II) Informal sector

(C) Bidi workers

(III) Datta Samant

(D) Badli workers

(IV) Contract work in organised sector

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)

(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)

List – I Industrial concepts

List – II Characteristics

(A) Bombay Textile Strike

(III) Datta Samant

(B) Flexi-time

(I) Extended working hours

(C) Bidi workers

(II) Informal sector

(D) Badli workers

(IV) Contract work in organised sector

The Bombay Textile strike of 1982, which was led by the trade union leader, Dr. Datta Samant.

Extended working hours are legitimised by the common management practice of ‘flexi-time’, which in theory gives the employee freedom to choose his or her working hours (within limits) but which in practice means that they have to work as long as necessary to finish the task at hand. But even when there is no real work pressure, they tend to stay late in office either due to peer pressure or because they want to show the boss that they are working hard.

The workers in Bidi Industry are related to informal sector.

Badli workers are those who substitute for regular permanent workers who are on leave. Many of these badli workers have actually worked for many years for the same company but are not given the same status and security. This is what is called contract work in the organised sector.