WORKING CLASS OF INDIA HISTORY OF EMERGENCE AND MOVEMENT 1830-2010
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Price: Rs. 640. Modern Lodern working class was born as a concomitant to the Capitalist class itself with the onset of industrial Revolution. The book is a strenuous research work and an analytical history of Working-Class Movement of India Its Emergence and Movement from 1830 to 2010 with special reference to the activities of the working class in the neo-liberal phaseof World Capitalism. The focus of the book is the clash of two trends in the Indian Trade Union Movement revolutionary trade union movement as against reformist trade unionism. Moreover, this present form of the book is a thoroughly revised version of the earlier one of thebook which dealt with the activities upto 1995. The author, Sukomal Sen, a post graduate from Calcutta University, is a long-time and experienced activist in the Indian trade union movement. He was associated with All India State Government Employees' Federation representing 8 million public employees since its birth in 1960. He was elected General Secretary of the Federation in 1982 and continuously held that position till December, 2008. Sen works at the international sphere also. His debut in the International Trade Union movement was with his participation in the Directive Committee meeting of the Trade Union International (TUI) of Public & Allied Employees in 1982 at Prague. In 1996 he took thecharge of TUI as General Secretary and sought to reorganize it with Head Quarters in Kolkata, India. He held the position till June, 2009. Till 2011 he was a Member of the Presidium of World Federation of Trade Unions and. nationally at present he is the Vice-Chairman of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and Senior Vice Chairman of All India State Governmen