World of Industries

In earlier stages, only male workers predominated in the working force in factories. But know women workers are increasingly taken to industrial work both skilled and semi - skilled. Formerly they were mostly confined to plantation and the textile industry. Now young girls from middle class families are working in factories in incresasing numbers. This is evidence from the fact that the number of women workers has increaed from 37,000 in the factories 75,000 in mines and 377,000 in plantation in 1971 to 495,000 , 90,000 and 416,000 respectively in 1977. Regarding eemployment of women the national comission on labour said "In some cases it is the economic compulsion which makes them take to work but in several others it is the desire to improve their standard of living and to posess ' extra ' goods that drive both husband and wife to work." Similarly child labour is also found in factories, shops, and establishments, small scale industries and in un organised sector through their number is on the decline.