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There are many small scale industries in Punjab which help the lower middle class workers to get their employment. Among all, handicraft industry is the mostly widely established small scale industry.
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Dsingh, A., Kaur, J. (2019). Ergonomic Risk Factors in Women Workers Involved in Handicraft Industry of Patiala District. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 826. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96065-4_43
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