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About
Collection
On
the Fourth of July 1929 the Imperial Government of Britain
constituted the first Royal Commission of Labour in India
with the express mandate to enquire into and report on the
existing conditions of Labour in Industrial undertakings
and plantations in British India.
The
Royal Commission of 1929 was the first of a series of such
commission of labour with similar mandates held afterwards
i.e., the Labour Investigation Committee- 1946, the
National Commission of Labour ( 1967-69), Shramshakti: The
National Commission on Women in Informal Sector 1987- 88
and the National Commission on Rural Labour (1986-1991).
The series of reports generated by the commission along
with their voluminous evidence , records of direct
observations and enquiries and memorandum submitted by
industrialists, labour unions, individuals etc provides
the most comprehensive record of the changing conditions
of work and workers since the last seventy years of
industrial history of India. They are by far the most
important source for understanding the long term changes
in structure of industrial relations in India as also the
best indicators of evolution of state policy on labour in
India.
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