Explain the Growth and Achievements of Labour union in India.
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Growth of Trade Unions:
The trade-union is a phenomenon of the modern industrialized society. It is a group of workers engaged in a particular trade for the purposes of securing better wages, shorter hours of work and improved conditions of labour. In the modern capitalistic society the worker is a hired employee with little attachment to the factory or office other than to his wages.
The early trade unions were small organisations of working men seeking some means of mitigating their weakness against the employer. They had, however, to face the hostility of Government. Both in England and on the Continent the workers were prevented from exercising the right of uniting for self defense.
Thus, in 1729 the Irish Parliament passed a statute whereby combinations of any trade were prohibited. The British Act of 1799 was a very strong measure penalizing the workers unions. ‘The operatives’ combinations”, wrote Weber, “were regarded as being in the nature of a mutiny against their employers and masters; destructive of the discipline necessary to the expansion of trade; and interfering with the right of the employer to do what he liked with his own capital” However, little by little the truth began to dawn on many minds that the workers had a right to unite in order to be capable of defending themselves against the capitalists and their pressure upon the Government.
Thus in modern times the trade unions are not merely tolerated but also recognized as essential in the economic structure of the country. Their size and number have greatly increased and now they play a significant role in the determination of wages, working hours and conditions.
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The trade-union is a phenomenon of the modern industrialized society. It is a group of workers engaged in a particular trade for the purposes of securing better wages, shorter hours of work and improved conditions of labour. In the modern capitalistic society the worker is a hired employee with little attachment to the factory or office other than to his wages.
The early trade unions were small organisations of working men seeking some means of mitigating their weakness against the employer. They had, however, to face the hostility of Government. Both in England and on the Continent the workers were prevented from exercising the right of uniting for self defense.
Thus, in 1729 the Irish Parliament passed a statute whereby combinations of any trade were prohibited. The British Act of 1799 was a very strong measure penalizing the workers unions. ‘The operatives’ combinations”, wrote Weber, “were regarded as being in the nature of a mutiny against their employers and masters; destructive of the discipline necessary to the expansion of trade; and interfering with the right of the employer to do what he liked with his own capital” However, little by little the truth began to dawn on many minds that the workers had a right to unite in order to be capable of defending themselves against the capitalists and their pressure upon the Government.
Thus in modern times the trade unions are not merely tolerated but also recognized as essential in the economic structure of the country. Their size and number have greatly increased and now they play a significant role in the determination of wages, working hours and conditions.
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