Ghandhiji believed that there was enough employment in InInd for all who would work with honesty and use their hands and feet. To his mind, everyone has the capacity to work and earn more than his daily bread and whoever is ready to use that capacity is sure to find work. No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn honest money.
Unemployment is generally understood as unemployment of the educated classes. Ghandhiji gave it a broader significance. The farmer is confined to factories, offices and plantations which is only a small fraction of the employment potential in the agricultural sector and village and cottage industries. The pity of it is that the so-called educated people do not apperiaciate the dignity if labour and look down upon manual work. This is what ha lead to the widespread poverty and unemployment in the country. Village and cottage industries if encouraged and honestly taken up, would wipe out unemployment in a short time.
The race for mechanisation robs villagers, who form the backbone of the country, of useful work, which would help them as individuals and also the country's economy. Labour saving devices might be all right for sparsely populated countries like America. With millions remaining idle, it is unsuited for India. "If someone devised a machine which saved us the trouble of using our hands to eat" , he stated, " eating would cease to be a pleasure, it would become a torture."
Ghandhiji, therefore, advocated quick and effective rehabilitation of village and cottage industries and strongly advised the educated to recognise the dignity of labour and shed their prejudices and complexes over different classes of work to remove unemployment and improve the economy of the country in the process.
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