Trade Union Movement in Orissa (An Old and Rare Book)

In the eva of globalisation & liberalization trade unions are getting more organised every where and their demands through time for better working conditions, higher wages, and more benefits are increasingly becoming an inevitable part of industrial history. The present volume offers an objective, balanced and holistic outlook on the Orissan trade union movement as an organised socio-political phenomenon. It depicts on a wide canvas of the history of the trade union movement its genesis, growth, development, progress & even recession in India (from 1885-1998) as well as in Orissa (from 1935-1998) & its impact on various industries under IDCOL. While studying the interaction between the driverse, latent & manifest causes which have conditioned the movement, the author mentions that the movement has been shaped & governed by its own dialectics. This is basically as empirical study and the analysis is mostly subjective. Being a scholarly work, this volume offers a valuable study on the Industrial life of Orissa and will be immense help to the student and teacher of the department of Political Science, Commerce. Labour Welfare and Industrial Relations

Dr. Muktikanta Mohanty, and erudite scholar, having excellent academic career is serving as a lecturer in Political Science in Vyasanagar College, Jajpur Road, Orissa. He is a versatile teacher having profound command over the subject & style & a long stretched period of teaching experience. Dr. Mohanty has published a large number of research papers in different journals, books & newspaper. The new book-'Reja' (the woman labour) is going to be published very recently by the Author.

It is a truism that the evolution of the Trade Union Movement in India has been to a large extent shaped and governed by its own dialectics of development. But as a product of Indian social and political environment, it has failed to curve out its autonomous destiny. Baring a few similarities observed in the development of labour movement in other countries, Indian phenomena as of today has acquired distinct characteristics if not a unique configuration. India being a mixed economy with distinct dimensions of industrial development, Trade Unionism in India has evolved neither among the lines of market economy of the developed west or the command economy of the socialist world.

For long, India remained a part of British regime which stunted the growth of industrialisation. Trade Union Movement is of recent phenomena in independent India though it can traced its origin to the era of freedom struggle. Importantly, independent India provided a federal form of government in which states were entrusted the task of industrialisation. As is well known, states have their peculiar problems arising out of local conditions and circumstances with variation in economic development. As some are more developed than others the problem of less developed states are different from the comparatively developed states. Illiteracy, economic backwardness, migration did not allow the inside leadership to grow in these less developed states to spearhead the Trade Union Movement. As the process of industrialisation gathered momentum in these states. trade unionism started in full swing.

It is well-known historical fact that modern industrialisation process involves myriad problems which have significant bearing not only on the industrial growth of a nation but on the make-up of its social fabric. The history of industrial development in world politics is basically a history of wage earning class, their hopes, aspirations, struggles and sacrifices for a meaningful life and a productive society. But in the process, they have suffered many historical setbacks and each setback is a prelude to the renewed effort of the working class for a further intensification of the movement. In the process, it has witnessed many blood-baths. The failure of the May Day movement is a historical reminder of that saga of sacrifice and forlorn hope of the working class.

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