Question
[117]. Read the following passage carefully:
Passage: "In a small handloom town, weavers made beautiful cotton cloth on wooden looms. For years, middlemen bought the cloth at very low prices and sold it at high prices in distant cities. The weavers worked long hours but earned little. Then a young weaver named Sita suggested that the weavers form a cooperative. They pooled their money, bought yarn directly, and sold their cloth at a fair in the district town. At first the sales were slow, but customers liked the quality and the honest prices. Gradually the cooperative grew, and the weavers began to earn enough to send their children to school. Sita often said that unity had given the weavers what years of hard work alone could not." What does Sita mean when she says unity gave the weavers what hard work alone could not?
Option 3 : That collective organisation changed their bargaining power, not merely individual effort.
Detailed Solution
सही उत्तर That collective organisation changed their bargaining power, not merely individual effort. है।
The cooperative changed prices and income, which individual hard work under middlemen had not achieved.
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[117]. Read the following passage carefully:
Passage: "In a small handloom town, weavers made beautiful cotton cloth on wooden looms. For years, middlemen bought the cloth at very low prices and sold it at high prices in distant cities. The weavers worked long hours but earned little. Then a young weaver named Sita suggested that the weavers form a cooperative. They pooled their money, bought yarn directly, and sold their cloth at a fair in the district town. At first the sales were slow, but customers liked the quality and the honest prices. Gradually the cooperative grew, and the weavers began to earn enough to send their children to school. Sita often said that unity had given the weavers what years of hard work alone could not." What does Sita mean when she says unity gave the weavers what hard work alone could not?
Correct Answer: That collective organisation changed their bargaining power, not merely individual effort.
The cooperative changed prices and income, which individual hard work under middlemen had not achieved.