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Class 7 Civics Chapter 8 Question Answers - A Shirt in the Market

Q1. How does the chain of markets play an important role in the story of the shirt?
Ans:

  • A chain of markets links the producer of cotton to the buyer of the shirt in the supermarket.
  • Buying and selling takes place at every step in the chain.
  • Everyone in the chain does not benefit equally from this.
  • The retailer benefits the most from this chain.


Q2. Briefly write about Swapna as a farmer in Kuraool?
Ans:

Swapna is a small farmer in Kumool. She grows cotton on a small piece of land.

  • Once cotton bolls ripen she picks them
  • It takes several days as cotton bolls burst open at different times
  • She takes’her harvest to local trader and not to Kurlnool market.
  • She had taken Rs 2,500 loan at high interest rate from that trader to grow cotton.
  • She had made a promise to sell her produce to him


Q3. Does she get the right price from the trader?
Ans:

No, she does not get the right price.

  • Her cotton is weighed and she is paid Rs. 1500/ quintal.
  • She gets Rs. 6000/. Out of this Rs. 3000/ were deducted as loan and interest.
  • She is told that cotton is selling cheap as there is lot of cotton in the market
  • Her efforts of four months and clean and fine cotton also did not change the mind of trader,
  • She does not argue. Though her earning is just a little more than a wage labourer.


Q4. Give an account of the cloth market of Erode.
Ans:
The Cloth Market of Erode

  • Erode has a bi-weekly cloth market.
  • This market is one of the largest cloth markets in the world.
  • A large variety of cloth is sold in this market.
  • Cloth that is made by weavers in the nearby villages is also brought here for sale.
  • Offices of cloth merchants who buy this cloth are around the market.
  • Other traders from many south Indian towns also come and purchase cloth here.
  • On market days weavers bring cloth that has been made on order from the merchant.
  • These merchants supply cloth on order to garment manufacturers and exporters around the country.
  • They purchase the yam and give instructions to the weavers about the kind of cloth to be made.


Q5. Write the advantages and disadvantages of the ‘putting out system’.
Ans:
For the weaver it has two advantages:

  • They do not have to spend money for purchasing yam and know what and how much cloth they have to make
  • They do not face the problem of selling the finished cloth.

Disadvantages for the weaver

  • They are dependent on the merchant for raw material as well as market
  • They get low wages. They do not know from whom they are making the cloth
  • They do not the market price of the cloth.


Q6. Describe the earning of the weavers in a month.
Ans:

  • Weavers invest all their savings or borrow money at a high interest rate to buy looms.
  • Each loom costs ₹ 20,000.
  • Hence, a small weaver with two looms has to invest ₹ 40,000.
  • The work on these looms cannot be done by one weaver.
  • The weaver and another adult member of his family work up to 12 hours a day to produce cloth.
  • For all this work, the weaver’s family earns about ₹ 3500 per month.


Q7. What is Weavers cooperative? How does it work?
Ans:

Weavers are paid very little under the ‘putting-out system. Weaver’s cooperative is a way of reducing their dependence.

  • In a cooperative people with common interests come together and work for mutual benefit.
  • They take activities collectively like procuring yam, distribution among weavers.
  • They do the marketing also.
  • The role of merchant is reduced and weavers earn higher income.
  • Government also helps the cooperative by buying cloth from them at reasonable rates
  • Tamil Nadu government runs a Free School Uniform programme in the state. The cloth is procured from power loom weaver’s cooperatives.’
  • Government buys cloth from handloom weaver’s cooperatives and sell it through ‘Co-optex stores.


Q8. Give an account of the Impex garment factory.
Ans:

  • The Impex garment factory has 70 workers.
  • Most of them are women and are employed on a temporary basis.
  • This means that whenever the employer feels that a worker is not needed, the worker is asked to leave.
  • Workers’ wages are fixed according to their skills.
  • The highest paid among the workers are the tailors who get about ₹ 3,000 per month.
  • Women are employed as helpers for thread cutting, buttoning, ironing and packaging.

These jobs have the lowest wages, as mentioned below:

  • Payment to workers (per month) –
  • Tailoring – ₹ 3,000
  • Ironing  – ₹ 1.50
  • Checking – ₹ 2,000
  • Thread Cutting and buttoning  – ₹1,500


Q9. Establish relationship between market and equality.
Ans:
Market and Equality

  • The foreign businessperson made huge profits in the market.
  • The garment exporter made only moderate profits.
  • On the other hand, the workers at the garment export factory earn barely enough to cover their day-to-day needs.
  • In the same way, we saw the small cotton farmer and the weaver at Erode put in long hours of hard work. But they did not get a fair price in the market for their produce.
  • The merchants or traders are somewhere in between.
  • In comparison to the weavers they have earned more but it is still much less than the exporters.
  • Thus, not everyone gains equally in the market.
  • Democracy is also about getting a fair wage in the market. Whether it is Kanta or Swapna, if families don’t earn enough then they can’t live with dignity.
  • They cannot think of themselves as equal to others.


Q10. What are the problems of the farmers and other producers? How can these be overcome?
Ans:

  • On one hand, the market offers people opportunities for work qnd for sale of their products.
  • On the other hand, the rich and the powerful get the maximum earnings from the market.
  • These are the people who have money and own the factories, the large shops, large land holdings, etc.
  • The poor have to depend on the rich and the powerful for various things.
  • They have to depend for loans, raw materials and marketing of their goods and most often for employment.
  • Because of this dependence, the poor are exploited in the market.
  • There are ways to overcome these problems.
  • They include forming cooperatives of producers and ensuring that laws are followed strictly.
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