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Labour and Employment

Karnataka Board · Class 9 · Social Science

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Understanding Labour - Basic Concepts

  • Labour refers to physical or mental effort exerted to produce goods or services for earning income
  • Only human labour is considered in economics - animal work is not called labour
  • Work done for pleasure or charity is not considered labour (e.g., mother caring for sick child)
2

Features and Types of Labour

  • Six main features: Cannot be separated from labourer, cannot be accumulated, supply varies over time, less mobile, differs in efficiency, active factor
  • Types by nature of work: Physical labour (manual work) and Mental labour (intellectual work)
  • Types by skill level: Skilled, Semi-skilled, and Unskilled labour
3

Division of Labour

  • Division of labour means allocating different parts of production process to different workers
  • Adam Smith's pin factory example: 10 workers produce 48,000 pins with division vs 10 pins without
  • Leads to specialization where workers focus on specific tasks
4

Gender Dimensions and Labour Discrimination

  • Women constitute 31% of rural labour force and 20% of urban labour force
  • Gender bias exists in form of unequal opportunities, lower wages, limited representation
  • Women face dual burden of paid work and unpaid domestic responsibilities

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The capacity to exert physicalThe allocation of different partsWork that creates utility orUnpaid domestic work performed mainly byThe inability to get work despite

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