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Labour Organization and Methods of Industrial Peace
Labour Organizations in India
Early Efforts: Trade Unions in India are of recent growth. Up to the end of the First World War, Indian labour was practically unorganized. The first instance of collective action by Indian workers was in 1884, when under the leadership of Lokhande, who began life as a factory worker in Bombay met in a conference to draw up a memorandum to the Factory Commission. Lokhande also formed the first labour organization in India when he organized the Bombay Mill-Hands Association in 1890 and started a paper called the ‘Deenabandhu’, the friend of the poor. In 1897, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of India and Burma was formed, but its purpose was more fraternal ...
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