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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?
Discuss the phenomenon of 'Time slavery' in the IT sector.
Concept: How is Work Carried Out?
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?
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
What changes did globalization and liberalization introduce in the Indian industrial society?
Concept: Industrialisation in India
Write a short note on Women’s Movement.
Concept: Womens’ Movement in India
Compare the impact of just-in-time for the company vis-à-vis the worker.
Concept: Class Based Movements
Jharkhand is one of the newly formed states of India, carved out of south Bihar in the year 2000. Describe the social movement that led to the creation of this state.
Concept: The Tribal Movements
Using an example, explain an ecological movement.
Concept: Ecological Movements
The Right to Information campaign is an example of ______.
Concept: Types of Social Movements
Differentiate between old and new social movements.
Concept: Types of Social Movements
| “…The contractors’ men who were travelling to Reni from Joshimath stopped the bus shortly before Reni. Skirting the village, they made for the forest. A small girl who spied on the workers with their implements rushed to Gaura Devi, the head of the village Mahila Mandal (Women’s Club). Gaura Devi quickly mobilised the other housewives and went to the forest. Pleading with the labourers not to start felling operations, the women initially met with abuse and threats. When the women refused to budge, the men were eventually forced to retire.” |
How are environmental movements also about economics and identity issues? Elaborate.
Concept: Ecological Movements
| A social movement requires sustained collective action over time. Such action is often directed against the state and takes the form of demanding changes in state policy or practice. Spontaneous and disorganised protest cannot be called a social movement. |
- Write any two features of a social movement.
- Give an example of a Dalit Movement.
Concept: Features of a Social Movement
What are Redemptive or Transformatory social movements? Give one example.
Concept: Types of Social Movements
What is meant by Reformist social movements? Give one example.
Concept: Types of Social Movements
