LABOUR IN THOSE YEARS

A Struggle for Fair Share: Recounting the Tebhaga Movement, 1946–47


Babu P Remesh

The Tebhaga movement was a major upheaval of sharecroppers and their allies—the landless labourers, rural artisans and tribals in undivided Bengal.

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ILO: Nine Decades of Labour for Labour


Babu P Remesh

The initial four months of 1919 are significant in international working class history in which the Constitution of the world`s most prominent organisation for labour, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), was written by the Commission on International Labour Legislation constituted by the Treaty of Versailles.

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Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 1984: The World`s Worst Industrial Disaster


Babu P Remesh

The Bhopal gas tragedy of December 1984 remains unparalleled in history as one of the world`s worst ever industrial accidents, in terms of the magnitude of destruction and the number of deaths.

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Mavoor: A Story of Corporate Social `Irresponsibility` and Lost Livelihoods


Babu P Remesh

The largest private sector industrial unit in Kerala—the Birla Group`s Gwalior Rayons factory at Mavoor—was formally shut down on 30 June 2001.

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