The Impact of Industrial Decline on the Socio-Economic Status of the Labors: A Case Study of Gadoon Industrial Estate District Swabi, KPK

Abstract

With the growing modernization the process of industrial development is gaining its quantum day by day. Nations having ample productivity used to generate enormous revenue through the industrial output. So industrial progress imparts a remarkable hype in the economy of a state. Whereas in the case of under developing countries due to lack of appropriate infrastructure industries are decelerating towards the ground. Within this declination on one side the economic loss is prevalent but on the other side there exists a vibrant and consistent hard work of the working labors which are incorporating their ultimate skills to get the quality products through which millions of rupees are earned by the state. The tragedy lies in the fact that these industrial workers are neither given weight age nor their problems are being highlighted. Focused on the industrial workers of the Gadoon industrial estate this study ponders to evaluate and stage the problems faced by these workers upon the industrial declination. In this Cause their social and cultural aspect is analyzed. 150 respondents are being surveyed through structured questionnaires by utilizing the purposive sampling technique. The data is analyzed by utilizing the advanced SPSS software version 16. O. Such that the results depict that the industry labors are facing severe crisis regarding their social life, their purchasing power has decelerated, their child socializing avenue is crippled and more importantly the hygiene condition of the workers is negligible in the industry