Exempel på jute

• In textile and jute industries, sardars were labour contractors and their status depended on how many labour hands they brought to the industry.

• Among jute workers only weavers were not employed on every day basis, as their work required much more time to learn than other workers.

• By 1971 women, who had been almost a fourth of the jute workforce, were decimated to a bare 2 per cent of the workforce.

• The mechanism of strikes in the jute mills often appeared unconventional to managers and the colonial state.

• The wages of jute mill workers provided them with bare subsistence.

• They therefore chose instead to remain in old and clearly stagnating businesses, such as jute and coal, which required less capital.

• In many jute mills, patterns of women's employment have held over a century.

• Her report was the first comprehensive statement, most oft-quoted, about the questionable and 'non-family' character of jute mill women.

• It also favoured export-oriented industries like jute and tea.

• Small seeds, such as amaranth and jute, were spread directly on the platform.

• The 1891 commission interviewed six women workers in the jute mills of whom five were widows.

• The raw jute passed through six different departments of a factory called batching, softening, preparing, spinning, weaving and sewing.

• In the jute industry weavers constituted the main backbone of the strikes.

• The organisation of production in the jute factories divided workers into various segments in terms of skill, nature of employment and gender.

• Both these tendencies were evident in the jute industry in different periods.