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International Labour Office Studies and Reports Industrial Labour in India

1938

One of the obstacles in the way of foreign investment the trade monopoly of the East India Copany in India was removed as early as 1833 but it was not until the transfer of the Government from the Company to the Crown in 1838 the pacification of the country after the Mutiny and the gradual expansion of British rule that foreign investment received encouragement. [...] The activities of the Public Works Department created early in the fifties for the construction of roads and railways opened up new market opportunities and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the improvement of ocean shipping facilitated the importation of machinery. [...] In granting financial help or the guarantee of profit however the Government reserved the right of purchasing the railways at the end of stipulated periods and as a result the Government of India had acquired the ownership of three-fourths and the direct management of over two-fifths of the total route mileage by 1985-193G. [...] In spite of the advantages noted above the prosperity of the Tata Iron and Steel Company began to decline in 1921-1922 and on the recommendation of the Indian Tariff Board on the Steel Industry the Government of India passed in 1924 the Steel Statistics of British India 1922 Vol. [...] During the war Goverment realised the importance of developing a balanced industrial system in India and on the recommendations of the Industrial Commission of 1916-1918 of the Fiscal Commission of 1921 and of other similar bodies a series of measures has been adopted of which the most important are the following : (1) the creation of Departments of Industries by several Provincial Gover
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Pages
343
Published in
Switzerland
SARF Document ID
sarf.140681
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii unknown view
Preface
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Chapter I Introduction
5-27 unknown view
Chapter II Nature and Extent of Industrial Employment
28-61 unknown view
Chapter III Labour Legislation
62-115 unknown view
Chapter IV Industrial Relations
116-149 unknown view
Chapter V Employment and Unemployment
150-181 unknown view
Chapter VI Health and Safety
182-212 unknown view
Chapter VII Hours of Work
213-235 unknown view
Chapter VIII Wages
236-270 unknown view
Chapter IX Standard of Living
271-295 unknown view
Chapter X Housing and Welfare
296-318 unknown view
Conclusion
319-324 unknown view
Index
325-335 unknown view

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