Assertion (A) Increase in the number of wage-earners led to emergence of two sets of people in the society, the wage-earners and wage providers. Karl Marx termed these two classes, opposed to each other, as proletariat and bourgeoisie and causative factor for the emergence of trade unions.
Reason (R) After the industrial revolution, concentration of free labourers under one roof took place on a large scale. In order to resist the exploitation of employers, the labourers had no other alternative but to make a common stand.
A. Both (A) and (R) are wrong
B. (A) is right and (R) is wrong
C. (A) is wrong, but (R) is right
D. Both (A) and (R) are right and (R) explains (A)
Answer: Option C
Labour movement became a vigorous force in India after . . . . . . . .
A. World War I
B. World War II
C. Panipat War I
D. Panipat War II
A. Improvement in working conditions
B. Adequate wages
C. Provision of rest pauses
D. All of the above
Which of the following recommendations were made by National Commissionon Labour in 1969?
A. Intensification by workers education to get good internal leader
B. The idea of one union for one plant
C. The compulsion of registration under the Trade Union Act, 1926
D. All of the above
A. INTUC, AITUC, NFITU
B. AITUC, NFL, BMS, NLO
C. INTUC, AITUC, HMS, UTUC
D. BMS, HMS, CITU, TUCC

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