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Tea Industry Essay

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“EXPLOITATIVE RELATIONS IN THE TEA INDUSTRY”
Abhijeet Shah,
M2014GL016

The Tea Industry and its Workers
The tea industry in India is one of the oldest industries and among the largest employers in the organized sector. Over 12 lakh permanent and almost the same number of casual and seasonal workers are employed in the industry. Over 50%, and in some operations, like tea plucking, over 80% of these, are women. A majority of the workers are Adivasi and Dalit women. This is the most disadvantaged section – socially, politically and economically. India is the world’s second largest tea producer, exporter and consumer. The relationship between individual owners/ employers of plantations and the tea industry organizations like the Indian Tea Association and the United Planters’ Association of Southern India (UPASI) have been very cleverly scripted to the utter and continual disadvantage of the workers in the plantations. The “agreement” or “settlement” between the Trade Unions and these trade bodies have been effectively acting as a barrier to the …show more content…

Most of the industries do not even have a Personnel Manager. Now the time has come for the tea industries to realize that in order to produce extra ordinary result, organization will have to depend a great deal on human aspect as this will help in bringing about the much needed competitive edge. This has made ‘labour Relation’ more significant and meaningful. The tea industry should understand that technology is no longer monopoly nor is the availability of money, but what may be monopoly would be the people associated with the business organization. The competitor of the industry can duplicate the business strategies, but cannot duplicate the people. This, in this context, one shall hope that the tea industry will evolve and develop a mechanism which will help it to enjoy and practice good, sound and timely labour relation

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