Quality of working life of workers in foundry industries: a literature review

In India, the masses are employed in factories and big industrial plants. When such a large population of people is employed in industries, it is important that they are well compensated for their skills and properly looked after. Quality of life is the degree of well-being felt by an individual or group of people. Unlike standard of living, quality of life is not a tangible concept, and therefore cannot be measured directly. Quality of work life is specifically related to the level of happiness a person derives for his career. Each person has different needs when it comes to their careers; the quality level of their work life is determined by whether those needs are being met. While some people might be content with a simple minimum wage job as long as it helps pay the bills, others would find such a job to be too tedious or involve too much physical labor and would find such a position to be highly unsatisfactory. This paper deals with the work done on the Quality of Working Life (QWL) of the workers working in the foundry industries for the period 1976 to 2014.