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The unorganised workers are that vast majority of employed,
employable unemployed and self employed work force of
390 million which encompass contract labour, casuals,
temporaries, home workers, domestic servants, time rated
or piece rated, casuals, part time workers, own account
workers, agriculture workers, share-croppers, marginal
farmers, contractual workers and include women, child
labour and old aged workers. Their wages and earnings
are generally at subsistence level. They do not get
protection of labour laws due to ignorance and very
loose enforcement. The unorganised workers are generally
denied social security, welfare and health cover. They
are not organised in any form of trade unions or associations
and generally face inhuman or hostile social environment.
They are engaged in unorganized economic activities
which encompasses small scale industries, cottage industries,
micro units of production, construction, in large manufacturing
units, textile and garment, horticulture, agriculture,
rural occupations, forest based employment's, fisheries,
sweeping-cleaning, loading-unloading, mining, forestry,
service sector, entertainment and thousands of many
more occupations or avocations. The globalisation-influenced
policies of the government have led to increased contractualisation,
outsourcing, informalisation, closure of small-scale
industries and the size of unorganised sector workers
is growing at a faster rate. A rough estimate would
suggest 94 percent of approximately 405 million are
in unorganised or informal sector. These workers contribute
to more than 50 per cent to the GDP growth.
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