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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Title:: Chapter I. - Introduction

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INTRODUCTION, } been supplied with equal generosity, and a number of witnesses placed us further in their debt by furnishing supplementary statements at a later date. In’some cases we have had to comment on the lack of infor- mation which we would have liked to obtain, but this lack is due almost entirely to such information not being available in any form, and not to any reluctance to give it to us. We are conscious that exigencies of time and space have prevented us from making the fullest use of all the material supplied. But, whatever the value of our Report, the volumes of evidence which accompany it constitute a source which, for years to come, should yield a wealth of information, not available elsewhere, for the study of labour questions. No trouble was spared by all concerned to facilitate our en- quiries, and to assist us in our tours. We would acknowledge especially the generous hospitality with which we were everywhere received, and the facilities and ready help given to us in our inspections. Our thanks are also due to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Ceylon Govern- ment, the Ceylon Association in London and the Planters Association of Ceylon for their valuable help : and to the Director of the International Labour Office, who placed the resources of that office at our disposal, and readily responded to our requests for information. We would thank all responsible for the accommodation freely placed at our disposal for our work in India, and the High Commissioner for India, who permitted us to use the new India House for our meetings in London. Arrangement of the Report. The Report falls into six main divisions. Conditions of employ- ment and work in the factory industries are discussed first (Chapters IT to VII). Four chapters follow on similar questions in relation to mines, railways and other forms of industrial activity (Chapters VIII to XI). This completes the review of working conditions in industry, and we pass to the standard of life of the industrial worker (Chapters XII to XV). The next group of chapters is devoted to general questions related mainly to the industrial worker, namely, workmen’s compensation, trade unions and trade disputes (Chapters XVI to XVIIT). We then turn to the plantations and deal in four chapters with the work and life of plantation workers (Chapters XIX to XXII). After discussing certain special questions relating to Burma, we deal in turn with statistics, general administration and the constitution in relation to labour ( Chapters XXIII bo X XV). The Survey of Conditions. The Report attempts throughout to fulfil the dual task laid upon us of reporting on existing conditions and of making recommenda- tions. We have come to our work from very different fields of experience. This has been most valuable in ensuring that every question is seen from several differing angles, but it has made it no simple task to present a common picture. While each of us, writing individually, might have placed the emphasis differently in some places, we have tried in our survey to express collective views, and have, we hope, succeeded in BY

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