Is Work Organisation Causing Precariousness? Insights from Textile Industry in South India

Since 1880 more than forty publications have been registered in Madras as “Saurāshtranā, the language noticed but not described under the name Paṭṇūlī in the Linguistic Survey of India, vol. vs., 2, pp. 447–8. It is spoken by more than a hundred thousand persons who play an important part in the textile industry of Madras and form a considerable element in the population of Madura and of other towns and localities in the Tamil districts. The great majority of them (89,000 out of 104,000) speak Tamil as a second language. Thurston's Castes and Tribes of South India, vol. vi (1909), gives an account of them in the article “Patnūlkārans”, and for the present purpose it is only necessary to say that according to their own tradition their original home was Surāṣṭra. In A.D. 437–8, as is recorded by a Mandasor inscription, the guild of silk-weavers who had migrated to Mandasor from Lāṭa-viṣaya erected a temple to the Sun (paṭṭavāyir udāraṃ ṥreēṇībhītair bhavanam atulaṃ kāritam), which they repaired in A.D. 473–4, the date of the inscription. It is a reasonable conjecture that they were ancestors of the present Saurāshtrans of South India. The inscription presents them as a self-contained community, in which learning and the martial arts as well as industrial skill were represented, and it may well be that Vatsabhaṭṭi, who composed the epigraphic poem, was himself a member of the ṥrēṇi. They may be supposed to have resided in Mandasor for a time. But long before the place was captured by the Muhammadans in the early fourteenth century the modern Saurāshtrans according to the tradition migrated to the Yādava capital Dēvagiri (Daulatābād). Subsequent migrations led them first to Vijayanagar, and finally into the Tamil country which is now their home. This account of their migrations is said to be preserved in a set form of words used in their marriage ceremonies. That they must have come under Telugu influence is plain from the considerable Telugu element in certain publications. The language which they brought from Lāṭa or Surāṣṭra may therefore have come successively under the influence, first and for a very long time, of Rājasthān forms of speech, and then of Marathi, Telugu and Tamil.

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Global Production System, Textile Industry and Wage Disparity: Evidence from South India

The Indian Economic Journal ◽

10.1177/00194662211041000 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 001946622110410

Author(s):

Nandini Ramamurthy

Keyword(s):

Production System ◽

Textile Industry ◽

South India ◽

Working Hours ◽

Wage Penalty ◽

Jel Codes ◽

Time Production ◽

Work Arrangements ◽

Wage Payment ◽

Social Security Benefits

This article discusses the root causes of wage disparity in the textile industry. The study argues that wage disparity arises through direct and indirect approaches. Both create pressure on suppliers and leads to low wage payment, depriving workers of social security benefits, unpaid holidays and leaves. Hyper-consumerism, free on board (FoB) price, and flexibility have created competition among suppliers and other stakeholders. Suppliers flexibilise rules and re-organise work arrangements to meet on-time production by increasing working hours, introducing wage penalty, strict supervising, and increasing surveillance. JEL Codes: J3, J31, J41, J46, J81, J82, J83

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Employee Morale and Its Impact on Employee Efficiency in Spinning Mills With Reference to Coimbatore District

International Research Journal of Management IT and Social Sciences ◽

10.21744/irjmis.v2i9.74 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (9) ◽

pp. 29

Author(s):

M. Nandhini ◽

M. Usha ◽

P. Palanivelu

Keyword(s):

Economic Crisis ◽

Textile Industry ◽

Tamil Nadu ◽

South India ◽

Export Market ◽

Self Concept ◽

Employee Morale ◽

Coimbatore District ◽

Collective Group

Employee morale is defined by the employee's outlook, optimism, self-concept, and assured belief in themselves and their organization, its mission, goals, defined path, daily decisions, and employee appreciation. Faith in self and faith in their organization are both important factors in positive employee morale. Individual’s morale is related with knowing one’s own expectations and living up to them. If one is clear of his own needs and how to satisfy them most of the time, his morale is height. Individual’s morale is single person’s attitude towards life. While group morale reflects the general expert de corps of a collective group of personalities. Spinning mills in Tamil Nadu were running round the clock, and were busy expanding their operational capacities. Now, with the export market hit the economic crisis, coupled with a few other factors, the declining foreign orders has pushed the textile industry of South India is centered into a crisis.

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