Paper short abstract:

In south India, many spinning mills industry employs young female workers with unfair recruitment practices. Japan's textile industry, which had the same kind of problems, had to balance the improvement of working conditions and the improvement of labor productivity.

Paper long abstract:

The development of the textile industry has continued as a major export industry in India. Focusing on spinning mills in India, the world's largest yarn exporter, the Southern state, Tamil Nadu, has some 1,600 spinning mills and employs around 400,000 workers. Sixty percent of these workers are female, coming from rural districts in search of employment. Those in search of work in a spinning mill go to the rural districts which have been gaining attention recently because of the discovery of its recruitment practices in the spinning mills. In a scheme that is popularly known as Sumangali Scheme, the garment industry of South India primarily employing young girls as its workforce.

Exactly same problem had happened in Japan at the first industrializing era, early 20th century. Japan's textile industry had to balance the improvement of working conditions and the improvement of labor productivity. Labor management, pressure from the government, the expansion of the labor union activities, although complex factors were involved Japanese textile industries experienced resulting in improvement of working conditions and contributed to the improvement of labor productivity. In cotton spinning mills, as the upstream of textile industries, it has underserved eye of global supply chain management. Japanese experience showed that the approach taken into consideration the impact of the development and basic education of women as the modern labour force is important to improve both working conditions and productivity of young women workers.