Topic > Unorganized workers in India - 1614

Traditional trade union organizations were challenged by workers in the unorganized sector and despite modernization and advances in their respective labor markets, fish workers and self-employed women were able to develop own national organizations (Nayak, 2013). In the article “Organizing unorganized workers: lessons from SEWA experiences” Nalini Nayak (2013) tries to describe the need for self-employed seafood workers to organize themselves to improve the livelihoods of their communities. Lewicki, Barry, and Saunders use the term negotiation to refer to win-win situations such as those that occur when parties try to find a mutually acceptable solution to a complex conflict (p. 3). After reading the article, I realized that these two groups of workers were being exploited and undervalued by the Indian government, area companies and trade unions where Nayak attempts to educate and consult the Indian government, trade unions and workers by describing the advantages of the labor front and the capital that each of the groups would bring to the economy. While many unorganized workers around the world are finding their voice through the use of technology and so unions are able to capture and identify new workers in these unorganized labor markets but there are still many workers who do not are recognized by the trade unions. Nayak (2013) explains that one of the main ways in which capital has therefore expanded is to further disorganize work and employment relations (pp. 402-403). Many unorganized workers are self-employed or work for agents where their assets affect the gross domestic product of the country, unfortunately their work is not recognized (Nayak, 2013). Because of worker disorganization, the… focus of the document… is challenging when core beliefs about what negotiation is and how it occurs are different” (Lewicki et al., 2010, p. 447). I found it difficult to understand that the Indian government was unable to recognize that when there is employment growth the structure of the economy changes and so does the GDP; my lack of understanding of the culture of the Indian government and its political system comes from growing up in the United States in a democratic society and the cultural differences between our countries. Works Cited Lewicki, R. J., Barry, B., & Saunders, D. M. (2010). Negotiation (6th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Nayak, N. (2013). Organizing unorganized workers: lessons from SEWA experiences. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 48(3), 402-414. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA325698256&v=2.1&u=oran95108&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w