Advantages And Disadvantages Of Unorganized Labour

1. Introduction

The "informal sector" is very difficult and there are many books written on this subject. It has small scale activity with little capital and a relatively large labor force. This would run the risk of dividing society on the basis of production relationship. The unorganized sector ' is in fact highly organized while fixing the wages of the employees. The unorganized are engaged in various services at unorganized places and they are engaged in, Contract laborers including construction workers, Casual laborers, Laborers employed in small scale industry, Handloom / power loom workers, Beedi and cigar workers, Employers in shops and commercial establishments, Sweepers and scavengers and other unprotected labors.

2. Unorganized labour

The unorganized labor could be described as those who have not been able to be organized in pursuits of common objective because of constraints, such as casual nature of employment, ignorance, and illiteracy. The small size of establishments with low capital investment per person employed, scattered nature of establishment and superior strength of the employer operating singularly or in combination. The workers in the unorganized sector rarely own capital or tools of production. They have no direct link with organized industry and services and they have no access to modern technology or facilities. All they own are the skills and knowledge of their trade and their own physical labor.

3. Problems of unorganized labour

The laborers