Labour legislation and the trade union movement
Whole chapter · 18–28 focused hours
Revolutionary, left, peasant and labour movements
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained modern history. Later chronological chapters assume earlier phases have been studied. History optional and basic literacy remediation are outside this plan.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and historical maps/source extracts
- A short chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book, appendix or optional exercise in full
- Exclude a second general account of the Gandhian movements and World History’s full socialist theory; read only the Indian organisational context.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Factories Act 1881 (child labour, hours for children) and 1891 (women, weekly holiday); neither fixed wages nor allowed unions; Factory Act 1911
- Lokhande and first unions
- All India Trade Union Congress 1920 with Lala Lajpat Rai as first president and Dewan Chaman Lal; Trade Unions Act 1926
- Trade Disputes Act 1929: courts of inquiry and conciliation tribunals, strikes in public utilities banned; Bombay textile strike 1928 and Girni Kamgar Union; AITUC splits 1929 and 1931
- Post independence federations
Where to study this topic
- UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus, Modern History (GS SCORE) ↗
heading: Revolutionary Nationalism
- History Syllabus (Drishti IAS, Delhi branch) ↗
Paper 2, item 9
- Tamil Nadu State Board Class XII History, chapter index (new syllabus) ↗
ch. 9 Envisioning a New Socio-Economic Order
- Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 4, chapter 3; Unit 6, chapters 6 and 12–14: revolutionary organisation, left, peasant and labour movements.
Whole chapter reading
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 4: Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age ↗
Birsa Munda case and its historical setting
- India’s Struggle for Independence, publisher edition record ↗
Chapters 3, 12, 16–17, 20, 24 and 27, plus revolutionary developments in chapter 11; select the passages relevant to this chapter rather than rereading events assigned elsewhere.
Book required - Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 4, chapter 3; Unit 6, chapters 12–14 for targeted regional gaps; study only material not covered by the selected school-text passages.
Book required