Employment Quality of Workers in Textile & Clothing Industry in West Bengal

Abstract

This paper aims to observe the share of the workers under different modes of employment both for male and female workers in urban and rural sector of West Bengal for the period of 2017-18 to 2023-24. Again, growth under the different modes for the seven years of period was also observed. Quality of employment was checked in respect of paid leave, job contract, and social security benefits given to the workers under the Textile and Clothing industry of West Bengal. It was observed from the study that both in rural and urban sector maximum females are mainly working as self- employed workers whereas most of the male workers were working as mainly regular salaried workers in most of the years but during the covid period they are mainly working as self -employed workers in rural area but in urban area they mainly working as regular salaried workers. The percentage of female workers working as casual workers are less comparing to the male workers both in rural and urban area. The growth rate of the male self- employed workers was positive in rural area whereas it was negative in urban area which was opposite for the Casual male workers. The percentage of male regular salaried workers was more in rural area. Growth rate of female workers was positive in both rural and urban sector but growth in rural sector was more as self-employed and regular salaried whereas growth rate as casual worker was more in urban sector. The condition of the male regular salaried workers was better compared to the females in respect of getting paid leave, having job contract and other social security benefits whereas the situation of both male and female casual workers was not good for the above-mentioned facilities and it was nil in maximum cases.