About the book: the making of the madras working class the madras labour union, founded in april 1918, is the first organized labour union in india may day was first celebrated in india in napiers park, madras, in 1923 these are well-attested facts in the histories of the labour movement in india there was,however, no coherent account of the labour movement in madras until d veeraraghavans seminal study, the making of the madras working class covering the period 1918-1939, this work is based on an exhaustive study of the voluminous documents in the colonial archive lodged in the tamilnadu archives, chennai, supplemented by research in the national archives of india the author also makes extensive use of contemporary news papers he unearthed the swadharma, the first periodical exclusively devoted to labour issues in india, and exploited to the full his access to leading labour and communist leaders including g selvapathy chetty, cssubramanyam, p ramamurthy, vp chintan, k murugesan, gajapathy,and others this book is an indispensable record of their experiencesthe present study surveys the industrial development in the city, and examines the origins of the working class, its structure, and the working and living conditions of the workers it describes some of the forms of protest and resistance during the early phases of industrialization and discusses struggles that took place prior to the founding of the madras labour union in 1918 the contributions of the leaders of the home rule and non-cooperation movements are analyzed, as well as the disunity and unrest in the ranks of the workers the period from 1922 through 1933 was one of ebb and quiescence for the labour movement a revival of trade union activity took place after 1924, stimulated by the enactment of the indian trade union act and under the impact of the great depression during 1933-1937, the left forces were strengthened by the merging of three streams of radicalism in madras, namely, th

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