Unorganized labour/ workers

The term unorganized labour can be defined as those groups of labourers or the workers who are not able to organize themselves in the type of employment in which they are interested. This happens because of the certain limitations that prevails such as illiteracy of the economy , ignorance of the job by the people, scattered size of establishments etc. the casual nature of the labourers towards the job also leads to the problem of unorganized labour. The problem of unorganized labour also occurs due to the various types of employments such as voluntary unemployment in which the workers are not at all willing to work , structural unemployment in which the people who are willing to work are not able to get job, involuntary unemployment where number of workers are more than the amount of job work available. The unorganized labour sector also suffers from cycles of excessive seasonality of employment and also the lack of stable and durable venues of the employment. Unorganized workers mean not only those workers who do not have an identity as a group or organisations but also those who do not have legal protection especially for social security like medical, pension coverage etc. Even if there are welfare programmes available to poor people of the country, most of them are project based that too for a limited period. It varies according to the mindset of the party in governance. In countries like India it has been analyzed that only 7% of the working class are organized and rest of the 93% of the work force works as unorganized or they are working in the informal economy. The characteristics of the unorganized workers are lower wage, low employment Security is due to contract and casual, poor working and living Conditions, no collective bargaining power and lack of enforcement of Law. The various types of unorganized sectors prevail in the economy sun as tannery workers , carpenters, vegetable and fruit vendors,artisans ,weavers etc. Due to the existence of unemployment in the economy people are not able to earn their basic needs of survival due to which they are unable to look after their families. The failure of the newcomers efforts to find stable, decently paid and dignified work is in this alternative perception due mainly to a development strategy that, in the face of excess supply, seeks to keep the price of labour as low as possible, allows no room for collective action to reduce these peoples vulnerability and refuses to provide this footloose workforce with public representation. In short, the lack of registration, organization and protection does not have its origin in the free play of social forces, but its the deliberate product of economic interests that benefit from the state of informality in which a wide range of activities in all branches of the economy are kept, systematically and on a large scale, through evasion of labour laws and taxation.