Industrial relations in India

The author of this book, Dr. Norman F. Dufty, is now Assistant Principal of Perth Technical College in Western Australia. As a specialist in commerce and business adminis tration he was invited by the International Labour Organi zation in Geneva during 1962-64. In 1963 he visited India as an LLO, expert and this visit brought him into contact with us at the Karnatak University, Dharwar. At our re quest he delivered three lectures to our Anthropology and Social Welfare students on some aspects of industrial rela tions in India. This book is a product of his genuine and sincere interest in the problem.

Industrial occupation necessarily requires large numbers of people to gather at a particular place for a certain length of time, to work with machines and mechanical power de signed and used to produce more and more of modern goods and service required not only by the local population but especially for exporting to foreign countries. In capitalistic and democratic countries, where private ownership of means of production is allowed and positively encouraged, there are bound to be two parties, employers and labourers, who are to collaborate and coordinate in the industrial task so as to maintain and improve the process of production. In communistic countries, where all property is held by the State, the type of relationship that exists among the persons participating in the industrial task is of an altogether dif ferent variety. In India, where both the public and the private sector are given equal opportunity for their growth, and where progressive strides made through planning are designed to socialize the economic organization, employer employee relationship takes quite another shape. Here, in this book, is a picture of the development of industrial rela tions in India, as observed by an international expert.