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Record Nr.

UNISA996543169103316

Titolo

The distress is impossible to convey : British and German trade-union reports on labour in India (1926-1928) / / edited by Ravi Ahuja, Marcel van der Linden, Anna Sailer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-11-068211-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 284 p.)

Collana

Work in global and historical perspective ; ; Volume 10

Disciplina

331.11730954162

Soggetti

Labor - India - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glossary -- Introduction: Indian Textile Industries and European Trade Union Delegations in the 1920s -- Exploitation in India. Report of the deputation sent to India by the Joint Committee of Dundee Jute Trade Unions (1926) -- Report of Investigations into the Conditions of Indian Textile Workers, Presented to the International Federation of Textile Workers by the Secretary, The Right Hon. T. Shaw. M.P. (1927) -- Working India. Its Future and its Struggle. Report of the German members of the deputation sent to India by the International Federation of Textile Workers (1928) -- Images of Indian Labour in German Trade Union Publications -- Asian Industrialism, Labour Movements and Cultural Nationalism: Interwar contexts of German trade-union writings on “Working India” -- Appendix: Indian Workers’ Delegates at Sessions of the International Labour Conference, 1920–1929 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Asian industrial competition, from Japan, China but also India, attracted greater public attention in Europe during the inter-war period than ever before. Indian industrial employment became the subject not only of extensive official enquiries, intensified legislation, a growing number of academic studies and of more popular writings, but also of debates within and between European trade unions.