Unorganizational

Introduction

In this sector we are dealing with workers who have not acquired a high profile, tasted the benefits that can be gained from organisation, or derived the advantages flowing from high visibility. In the unorganised sector, we have to deal with workers who are engaged in a variety of occupations or employments, ranging from those like forest workers, tribals trying to follow traditional vocations within their traditional habitats, and fishermen who venture out to sea in vulnerable canoes, to those who are working in their homes with software, or assembling parts for a highly sophisticated product. Many of them are victims of invisibility.

The laws or welfare systems that ministries and commission propose for them cannot be effective unless they themselves are conscious of the laws, and acquire the strength to ensure that laws are brought into force; unless there are effective means to implement, monitor and provide quick redress; unless breaches of the law are punished with deterrent penalties, and unless the organs of public opinion and movements and organisations mount vigil, and intercede to ensure that the provisions of the laws and welfare systems are acted upon.

We as a team are aware that lot of studies and commissions have also looked at the unorganised sector- we will try to give most

Definition and Identifiable characteristics

It may be seen from these observations that the unorganised sector is too vast to remain within the confines of a conceptual definition.

Hence, descriptive means are often used to identify the unorganised or informal sector.

The term ‘informal’ per se, denotes the informal nature of work in the activity concerned, irrespective of the actual number of workers employed, and irrespective of whether it is within the purview of the requirements for registration. Some studies done in India restrict the informal sector to enterprises employing less than 10 persons. These tend to set an upper limit of...