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History of Labour and Workers in India
Online Resources
May 2022
On May Day, the International day of the workers, we bring a list of links and resources available online on how workers and labourers have been treated historically in India:
Industrial Labor And Wages, 1800–1947
https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/
industrial-labor-and-wages-1800-1947
Indian Labor History, Prasannan Parthasarathi
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23391676
Trade Unions – The History of Labour Unions in India
https://www.clearias.com/trade-unions-history-labour-unions-in-india/
Industrial Development and Rise of Labour in India
https://historydiscussion.net/history-of-india/industrial-development-and-rise-of-
labour-in-india/6050
Indian Labour History, Report on the international conference in Noida
https://socialhistoryportal.org/news/articles/109303
Ravi Srivastava on history of Labour Rights in India
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1JGq46s7F2w
Indian indentured labourers, The National Archives (UK)
https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/indian-
indentured-labourers/
The working-class history of India
http://hartford-hwp.com/archives/52a/index-d.html
The history of auto workers in India
http://hartford-hwp.com/archives/52a/index-db.html
Making bonded labour systems history: A task that awaits completion
https://actionaidindia.org/blog/making-bonded-labour-systems-history-a-
task-that-awaits-completion/
The Labour of Smell, and How the Artisan Attar Industry Survived Pressures Across Ages
https://thewire.in/history/perfume-workers-attar-colonial-india
India: domestic workers (Anti-slavery)
https://antislavery.org/what-we-do/past-projects/india-domestic-workers/
National Domestic Workers’ Movement
https://ndwm.org/
Narayan Lokhande: Founder of the Indian Labour Movement
https://labourfile.com/section-detail.php?aid=624
Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry
https://amazon.com/Women-Labour-Late-Colonial-India-ebook/dp/B001E71HP0
Indian Labour in a Global Conflict (1914-1921), Radhika Singha
https://livehistoryindia.com/story/eras/coolies-great-war
History of Social Security of Unorganized Workers -- With Special Reference to India, Sujit Kar
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2559656
Indentured labour from South Asia (1834-1917)
https://striking-women.org/module/map-major-south-asian-migration-flows/
indentured-labour-south-asia-1834-1917
The labor market in India since the 1990s
https://wol.iza.org/articles/the-labor-market-in-india-since-the-1990s/long
Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of
Plantation Workers in India by Ravi Raman
https://researchgate.net/publication/259926018_Global_Capital_and_Peripheral_
Labour_The_History_and_Political_Economy_of_Plantation_Workers_in_India_by_Ravi_Raman
Connecting the dots: History of Indian Indentured Labourers from British India
https://outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/70767/life-and-times-of-
indian-indentured-labourers-from-british-india
This list is in progress.
Please let us know if you know of some good archive on the Internet
which concerns us and we may have missed. Please report if you find any dead
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