Trade union freedoms in India

"Trade Union Freedoms in India" is the pioneer study of its nature and content under taken in our country. Acceptance of demoers tie process in all the institutions of national life of a country have contributed to trade union freedoms in capitalist as well as socialist systems. It is extremely a sensitive issue dealing with the rights and status of trade unions

The present study, explanatory and explatory in nature, is an earnest effort to underscore and analyse the history, growth, need and emerging significance of trade union freedoms in an age known for its commitment to human rights, human liberty and democracy in its ramifications side by side inner working of trade unions, inter and intra-union rivalaries, managerial hostility to trade unions and their opposition to trade union freedoms and immu nities, motivation of joining trade unions, parti cipation and involvement of outside members in union activities, leadership and decision making process within trade unions, are some of the contours of this study.

The study is comparative in approach incor porating international and Indian experiences. It deals with the monumental conventions and recommendations of the ILO related with the subject. It also discusses the major policy constraints which are being presently faced by the trade unions. The author has made sincere attempt to examine and assess the judicial responses to trade union freedoms. The study further highlights the existing situation of trade union freedoms in practice based on an empirical survey.

This outstanding work will be of immense help and utility to managerial personnel, lawyers, teachers, scholars and students of labour laws and industrial relations, trade union activists and to all those associated with the formulation of trade union policy for coming generation.