International Labor Day is celebrated annually on May 1. This day is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and also celebrated unofficially in many other countries. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement. It originated from the United States labor union movement in the late 19th century, specifically the eight-hour day movement which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest for the labour in many countries.
Pakistan has been celebrating Labour Day since independence (1947) just after becoming a member of the International Labour Union. Some countries vary the actual date of their celebrations so that the holiday occurs on a Monday close to 1 May. Labor Day/May Day is celebrated to pay tributes to the contributions workers have made to make the world strong and prosper.
In present economics condition of Pakistan, labour suffer harshly. The energy crisis/loadshedding increased the labour’s problems to new height. Lots of industries are not working due to the shortage of light. When industries are closed its result os unemployment among the working class. The circumstances affect labour class directly and indirectly. Unemployment creates frustration among the people, which cause social problems including increased robbery suicide ratios and many others.
Many old factories have been introducing modern automatic machinery to perform tasks previously done by workers. This is done mainly to increase productivity. But in some cases it has meant the elimination of jobs for the labour. A major criticism of the labor movement has been that its traditional demand for higher wages and better working conditions. Labors also face unfair wages problem in many areas of Pakistan.
To overcome the entirelabours problem we need to improve our resources. We are presently living in the era of globalization, where we need to walk with the world. This would only been done by solving labours problem and issues. labour class is the back bone of any country’s economy. And economy is the only way of success.
Government need to take serious steps toward labour right need to solve energy crises on priority basis. Have check on private industries also improve the resources as per requirement. Also provide fair wages to labour that can full fill their basic necessities.
The resolution of these problems help in developing trust worthy and comfortable environment in industries of Pakistan , both for labour and investors. The labour needs some serious efforts from power corridors to gets their issue resolved.
Labour class of any country plays a vital role in nation buildings. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
The writer is a resident of Parsan, Karimabad Chitral, and studies
at the Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar.]]>
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name.
But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes your proclivities and prejudices both
“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
unfortunately pakistan Govt treat the labour very harshly..The Govt unable to provide the basic rights of labour and also masive number of childs labour are working factory,road etc..
yes dear may day is known as labor day in some cuntries is a day of rest and is usully held in the spring…..
That’s Great work sheru..Really appreciable..Keep it up dude.
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
its 1st may labour day celebrating all over the world…… but still in pakistan labourers are facing lot of problems but its the responsibility of state to provide better working conditions to labours alongwith free medical, housing and educational facilities to labours.