• Dr. Haren Ch. Kalita

Abstract: In terms of brick production India stands second position in the world. As per data available the annual demand for clay bricks in India was over 300 billion units putting the market size at around $25 billion. However, the largest supplier of industrially produced bricks in India has a market share of less than 0.1 per cent. This reveals the highly unorganised and fragmented status of the brick industry. In the brick industry, work is seasonal, temporary, and casual in nature, the employment relations between the employer and the employees are not permanent and all relationships remain contractual. The bulk of workers come from rural areas as migrant workers and they are illiterate, poor and work under low working conditions. The workers have no security of employment and get low amount of wages. They are not getting any welfare facilities and no government scheme is applied to them.

Brick industry, Women, socio-political, economic, exploitation

"’SOCIO ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STATUS OF WOMEN WORKERS IN BRICK INDUSTRY: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO KAMRUP DISTRICT, ASSAM, INDIA”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.282-290, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907P41.pdf

"’SOCIO ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STATUS OF WOMEN WORKERS IN BRICK INDUSTRY: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO KAMRUP DISTRICT, ASSAM, INDIA”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp282-290, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907P41.pdf