Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter III. - The employment of the factory worker

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THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE FACTORY WORKER. 3 the wider use of the cinematograph, but the efforts required to impart. literacy to adult operatives working a full day would generally produce more valuable results if applied in other directions. If adults are to face the strain of education successfully, it must be given in hours that would otherwise be devoted to factory work, and this is out of the ques- tion for the mass of operatives. The Education of Selected Operatives. The provision of a simple form of education in working hours might, however, be worth while in the case of a few selected operatives in some industries. This would go far to solve the difficulty of obtaining suitable men for the lower supervisory grades. The first necessity is time off with pay for promising men selected for the purpose. At least three afternoons a week might be given to education. But it will probably be necessary for employers to go a stage further by assisting to provide the education. The time-tables of the municipal schools will ordinarily be inconvenient for the operative, and in any case he cannot suitably be educated along with young children. Further, the supervision of the education by the employer will do something to secure that it is properly directed. Under his direction a little technical education could be added where necessary, but care must be taken to see that the school concentrates on general and not technical training. The facilities for obtaining practical experience are usually there ; itis the lack of general aducation which keeps the promising worker back. The case of the jute industry in Bengal offers a special opportunity in this direction by reason of its geographical concentration and of the excellent organi- sation of the employers. Here, too, the advantages of the proposal would be most easily tested in that the educated sardar would find his employment in the same district and frequently in the same group of mills. © We recommend that the Indian Jute Mills Association should combine to maintain a part-time school for selected adult and adolescent Operatives. Such a school would, we hope, secure a good Government grant, as it would have a strong claim to State assistance. On satis- factory completicn ot the course, the workman, if properly selected in the first instance, would be able to take a post as jobber or assistant Jobber, and the avenue of further promotion would be open to him. The possibilities of similar co-operative action deserve examination by employers wherever there is a concentration of industry. While we have stressed the importance of general education, we do not desire bo imply that technical education would not be of great assistance in some cases, and we suggest that employers’ associations might consider the question of granting scholarships for technical education to selected. men. Industrial Unemployment. We discuss in the remainder of this chapter the question of unemployment, with special reference to the factory worker. Two factors have hitherto operated to protect industrial workers a the dangers of long periods of idleness, In the first place the rate of

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