Solution of Chapter 9. A Shirt in the Market (Social and Political Life-II Book)

What made Swapna sell the cotton to the trader instead of selling at the Kurnool cotton market?

Describe the conditions of employment as well as the wages of workers in the garment exporting factory. Do you think the workers get a fair deal?

Think of something common that we use. It could be sugar, tea, milk, pen, paper, pencil, etc. Discuss through what chain of markets this reaches you. Can you think of the people that help in the production or trade?

Arrange the statements given alongside in the correct order and then fill in the numbers in the cotton bolls accordingly. The first two have already been done for you.

1. Swapna sells the cotton to the trader.

2. Customers buy those shirts in a super market.

3. Trader sells cotton to the Ginning Mill.

4. Garment exporters buy the cloth from merchants for making shirts.

5. Yarn dealers or merchants give the yarn to the weavers.

6. The exporter sells shirts to the business person from the U.S.A.

7. Spinning mill buys the cotton and sells yarn to the yam dealers.

8. Weavers return with the cloth.

9. Ginning mill cleans the cotton and makes it into bales.