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Labour Investigation Committee. Government of India. Report on an enquiry into conditions of Labour in the Bidi Cigar and Cigarette Industries

1946

The guiding principle in the selection of centres of survey was to make the survey regionally representative so as to discover differences in the conditions of labour in the same industry in different parts of the country. [...] Before the commencement of field work all the Supervisors (with the exception of those working in Bengal) were called to the Committee's headquarters at Simla and 'given detailed instructions on the technique and scope of the enquiries to be conducted by them the manner in which they were to submit their data and the centres and units which they were to investigate. [...] This departure from the usual procedure of the Comittee as a whole dealing with the work was necessary in view of the immensity of the task and the necessity of maintaining an all-India prospective. [...] The wrapper leaf is wrapped on the outside of the cigar and indicates the quality of the cigar so far as the extenal appearance is concerned. [...] those not using bidi making as a supplementary source of income the hours are too frequently unduly long the length of the working day being determined by the worker's own poverty and the comparatively low yield of the piece-rates paid 1. ' ' The picture drawn by the Royal Commission of the working conditions in the bidi industry is largely true even to-day except that working throughout the ni
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Pages
84
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100163
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i D.V. Rege view
Frontmatter
i-i D.V. Rege view
Preface
ii-iv D.V. Rege view
Acknowledgments
v-v D.V. Rege view
Introduction
1-2 D.V. Rege view
Chapter I survey of Labour Conditions—General
3-9 D.V. Rege view
Chapter II Central Provinces
9-15 D.V. Rege view
Chapter III Bombay Provinces
15-25 D.V. Rege view
Chapter IV Bombay Provinces
25-38 D.V. Rege view
Chapter V Bengal
38-42 D.V. Rege view
Chapter VI Cigar Industry
43-49 D.V. Rege view
Chapter VII Cigarette Industry
50-70 D.V. Rege view
Chapter VIII Summary And Conclusions
70-73 D.V. Rege view

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