Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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MIGRATION AND THE TACTORY WORKER. and metal works fo m three groups of about the same size, an number about a million in the aggregate, while the remaining perennial factories, which are scattered over a large number of industries, employ possibly a quarter of a million persons in all. Cotton Textiles. Since the middle of last century, Bombay, on account of its excel- fent shipping and railway facilities and business ;enterprise, has dominated the cotton textile industry. There are still about 118,000 workers in the mills of Bombay City and Island. The second centre of the industry is Ahmedabad, in Gujerat, with about 70,000 operatives ; other centres in the Bombay Presidency include Sholapur, Surat, Broach and Jalgaon. The 203 cotton mills of the Presidency employ in all about 232,000 per- sons. The remaining 92 mills with about 106.000 operatives are distributed over many provinces and towns. Most important among these are Madras, Madura and Coimbatore in the Madras Presidency, Nagpur in the Central Provinces, Cawnpore in the United Provinces, and the vicinity of Calcutta. There has recently been a ten- dency for the industry to push into the smaller towns in the cotton- growing tracts. These have the advantage, not possessed by Bombay, of proximity to recruiting grounds for labour and to the markets for both the raw material and the manufactured article. Generally speaking, the industry has been expanding nearly everywhere except in Bombay, and the decline in employment in that city has been balanced by the expansion elsewhere. as the following figures show :— Operatives 10,200 67,000 24 10 327,000 324,000 325,000 332,000 339,000 343,000 319,000 238.000 10 1099 20, There has also been an expansion in Indian States, which are not included in any of the figures given above. The industry is largely in Indian hands. In Bombay, Parsees, who were responsible for its initiation, and Gujerati Hindus have the biggest interests and the latter class control nearly all the mills in Ahmedabad. Europeans control some mills in both these centres and they and Hindus of various provinces are responsible for most of the mills in the smaller centres. Musalmans control some mills in Bombay, but few, if any, elsewhere. A considerable number of English- men. drawn mainly from Lancashire. are amnloved in the mills as managers

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