ABSTRACT
The discussion of wages must be supplemented by a study of labor efficiency. This is particularly important in the case of a country like India where the plentifulness of labor has not incited to great individual efficiency and where, on account of the tropical climate and the religious attitude towards life, poverty is readily accepted or even espoused. The Indian has remained cold to the modern movement for industrial efficiency and his output compares unfavorably with that of most of his competitors. The discrepancy, moreover, seems to become greater rather than less. The Indian makes some advance but the post-War drive for efficiency in Europe, America and Japan leaves him still further behind. The present chapter will present some of the salient facts regarding Indian industrial efficiency and then undertake to offer some reasons for them.
