Russia and the Revolutions (1900-24) In the yearly years of the twentieth century, Russia was in a troubled state. Nicholas II, who was Tsar(emperor) from 1894 until 1917, insisted on ruling as an autocrat, but he failed adequately to deal with the country’s problems. Unrest and criticism of the government reached the climax in 1905 […]
Read More »The end of the First World War, “the war to end all wars”, it was believed, would be followed by a period of peace, freedom, democracy, and a better life for everyone. Seven months later, the Russian Revolution took place and the Soviet government issued the Decree on Peace, which called on all the belligerent […]
Read More »Introduction: Madras was pre-eminently an agricultural province. The urban element in the madras presidency was weak, being only one – eight of the total population. There was only three places in madras which became within the government of India‘s definition of a city, having a population exceeding 100,000. These cities were Madras, Madurai and Trichinopoly. […]
Read More »Many communist leaders were arrested prosecuted imprisoned and convicted due to the violent and long drawn of strike led by the union in 1924. The sole representative of the Indian working class was AITUC emerged during that period. 150,555 members of 57 unions were united by 1927. The rapid growth of trade unionism was facilitated […]
Read More »INTRODUCTION: Labour is the outcome of the factory system and trade union is the outcome of the emergence of labor. With the development of factory system labor grows as a class, and it happens in the case of India too. The factory system has been established in India only in the […]
Read More »Introduction: In 1929 stock market crash in USA crushed the whole economy in the country. The Financial and Banking crash, which spread to the other countries was the first symptom of the world economic crisis. This crisis which gripped the capitalist world during 1929-1933 was the most profound and destructive of all economic crises capitalist […]
Read More »Justice P.B Gajendragadkar heading as the chairman, the first National Labour Commission was formed on 26th December 1966 to which the final report was submitted in August 1969. The main aim and objectives of the Commission was to study, examine and give a review on the lifestyle of the labour community of India since independence. […]
Read More »Frank Tannenbaum was born on 4th March 1893 in Austria. He was a historian, sociologist, and a criminologist. He was a history professor at Columbia university. He saw the trade union movement as the labourers reaction against the dominance of the machines in the modern industrial society. He felt that the machine degraded the worker […]
Read More »Trade unionism and collective bargaining has proven to be a trouble when it comes to economies which undergo the early phases of industrialisation. Mahatma Gandhi’s views regarding the role od trade union were contrary to Karl Marx’s Theory. One of the main advises which Gandhi gave was that the workers to be organise themselves because […]
Read More »Robert F. Hoxie was born in 1868. He was the Prof. of Economics at the University of Chicago. He was very much influenced by Veblen for which he became a tedious investigator and tireless hard-work researcher on economics, particularly on “The Theory of Trade Unionism”. He made a commendable contribution to the development of the […]
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Unveiling the Mysteries of the Zam Zam Well: History, Significance, and Controversies
Vijay Ratna Kumar J | March 27, 2023