Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Discuss the changing nature of industrial working class.
- UPSC 2022
- 10 marks
- Industrialization and Urbanisation in India
India's industrial working class is not disappearing; it is being recomposed. Three things have changed together — who enters the factory, on what contract, and what kind of community forms outside its gate. Rajnarayan Chandavarkar's Bombay millhand, village-tied, recruited by a jobber and living in a chawl beside the mill, is no longer the representative…
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- Composition: who the worker now is
- Employment form: one shop floor, several contracts
- The dissolution of the working-class neighbourhood
- Consciousness and organisation
- Conclusion
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