TY  - BOOK
AU  - Azhar, Ahmad 
TI  -  Revolution in reform : trade-unionism in Lahore, c. 1920-70 / Ahmad Azhar
T2  - New perspectives in South Asian history
SN  - 9789352876129
U1  - 331.8095491 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Telangana
PB  - Orient Blackswan
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - Pakistan Lahore
KW  -  Pakistan Lahore History 20th century
N2  - Late-colonial Lahore witnessed the rise of organised workers’ politics with the unionisation of native Indian workers at the Mughalpura railway workshops in 1920. Various ideological tendencies—the Owenist, Labourite and Communist traditions—began to come together while power struggles gradually led to rifts within the trade-union. Revolution in Reform: Trade-Unionism in Lahore, c. 1920–70 explores these previously unrecognised ambivalences. Ahmad Azhar questions previous research that have traditionally considered labour politics of inter-war Punjab as mere preludes to Partition. He studies crucial moments: the railway strike of 1920; Mughalpura’s quest for autonomy in the inter-war years; the relation of labour politics with ‘Swaraj’ and the Indian National Congress (1919–47); and the Meerut Conspiracy Case and the Royal Commission on Labour in India
ER  -