Labour welfare , Meaning

labour welfare implies the setting of minimum desirable standards and the provisions of facilities like health,food,clothing,housing,medical assistance,education,insurence,job security,recreation and so on. Such facilities enables the worker and his family to lead a good work life and social life.

labour welfare also operates to nautrilise the harmful effect of large- scale industrialisation and urbanisation.

Labour welfare may be viewed as a total concept,social concept and a relative concept.

The total concept is disirable state of existance involving the physical,mental and social wel being.

These four element together constitute the structure of welfare on which its totality is based.

The social concept of welfare implies the welfare of man,his family and community.All these aspects are inter-related and work together in three dimensional approach.

The relative concept implies that welfare is relative in time and place. It is a dyanmic and flexible concept hence its meaning and content differs from time to time,region to region,industry to industry,and country to country,depending upon the value system,level of education,social systems,politicle systems,degree of industrilisation and general standards of socio-economic development of the people.