Question

“The more mechanised an industry gets, the fewer people are employed.” Justify the statement with suitable examples.

Answer 1

“The more mechanised an industry gets, the fewer people are employed.”

• The more mechanized an industry gets, the fewer people are employed however they too have to work at the pace of the machine.
• For example, In Maruti Udyog Ltd. two cars roll *** 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.
• While production has gone up, the number of permanent jobs in the factory has gone down.
• The firm has outsourced all services like cleaning, and security, as well as the manufacture of parts. Outsourcing and just-in-time keeps costs low for the company, but the workers are very tense, because if the supplies fail to arrive, their production targets get delayed, and when they do arrive they have to run to 4 keep up. Thus, they get exhausted and they leave their jobs.