Labour legislation and the trade union movement
- Factories Act 1881 (child labour, hours for children) and 1891 (women, weekly holiday); neither fixed wages nor allowed unions; Factory Act 1911
- Lokhande and first unions
- All India Trade Union Congress 1920 with Lala Lajpat Rai as first president and Dewan Chaman Lal; Trade Unions Act 1926
- Trade Disputes Act 1929: courts of inquiry and conciliation tribunals, strikes in public utilities banned; Bombay textile strike 1928 and Girni Kamgar Union; AITUC splits 1929 and 1931
- Post independence federations
- Nationalists and the working class: economic exploitation, anti-imperialism and changing approaches to labour organisation