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

Short Q&A:

Q1: Explain the conditions of employment as well as the wages of workers in the garment exporting factory.

Ans :  The conditions of employment and wages of workers in the garment factory can be described as mentioned below: 
Conditions of employment - unhygienic conditions, no regular service, highly congested place, no job security, no proper arrangement of urinals / bathrooms / drinking water etc. 
Wages - very low and unfair wages, no regular job, contract job, unfair deal.

Q2: Do you think the workers get a fair deal in India?

Ans :  The conditions of employment and wages of workers in the garment factory can be described as mentioned below: 
Conditions of employment - unhygienic conditions, no regular service, highly congested place, no job security, no proper arrangement of urinals / bathrooms / drinking water etc. 
Wages - very low and unfair wages, no regular job, contract job, unfair deal. 

Q3: How garment exporting factories maximise their own profit?

Ans : They maximise their own profits by getting maximum work from workers at lowest price and supply the foreign buyers at cheap rates

Q4: Merchants hold lot of power. Explain how

Ans : Weaver weaves clothes that have been made on order from the merchant. Merchant also provide them yarn to weave clothes.

Q5: In what way weavers dependent upon cloth merchants?

Ans : Weaver weaves clothes that have been made on order from the merchant. Merchant also provide them yarn to weave clothes.

Q6: Differentiate between a large farmer and a small farmer.

Ans : A Large farmers sell their crop to the crop market at higher prices. Their situation is quite different from poor and small farmer because a small poor farmer needs to borrow money for cultivation and at the other time of exigencies. They have to sell their crops to the traders as they took loan from them and had no bargaining power. Large farmers don’t depend on others for money to start cultivation.

Long Q&A:

Q1: Where do you think the large farmers would sell their cotton? How is their situation different from small and poor farmers?

Ans : Large farmers would sell their cotton to the cotton market at higher prices. Their situation is quite different from poor and small farmer because unlike them, A small poor farmer needs to borrow money for cultivation and at the other time of exigencies. They have to sell cotton to the traders as they took loan from them and had no bargaining power. Large farmers don’t depend on others for money to start cultivation.