May Day : “ Repercussions ” Of All The Black Day Translated Into An International day

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May Day : “ Repercussions ” Of All The Black Day Translated Into An International day
The Industrialisation and everything regarding it’s reputation might have come after the International Labour Organisation was formed in 1946
The ILO was founded in 1919, in the wake of a destructive war, to pursue a vision based on the premise that universal, lasting peace can be established only if it is based on social justice. The ILO became the first specialized agency of the UN in 1946.
However it was the Fredrik Heizeworth and his profound theory that gave the birth of the following way back in the 17th century and he advocated as the following things that were to be given or awarded to the labours working in the mills and the factories then-:
A ) >   A clean atmosphere to all the labours working  in the premises of the factory or the mills to breathe fresh air by working in the fresh environment
B ) > To provide for neat and tidy washrooms, toilets and the facilty for the medical aids.
C ) >  have the privilege of earning the equlivalent salary as the volume of effort and labour put into the work
D ) > To enjoy the facility of rests and vacations so as to put the body back into the action so that the body is recharged for taking the future workload.
Industries  have changed their shape. It use to be the work on the field first, it later gotitself changed to the Mills and the factories, thereafter it was mines and the underground fields that took it over and now we have the IT industries that does not possesses the chimneys or the smokes but the computers to carry on the war . With the advent of the change came in the change in the form of the labours and from the BLUE- COLLARED work force we now possess is the WHITE-COLLOR work force and that is the CHANGE that the world has witnessed from the dawn of the 17th century to the 21st .
Labour Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers and is traditionally observed on the first Monday in September. It was created by the labor movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894
What is Labour
Labour could be explained in two different manner and two different form
In simple meaning by ‘Labour’,  we mean the work done by hard manual labour mostly work done by unskilled worker.
Pics – II :: Manual Labour
But in Economics, the term labour mean manual labour. It includes mental work also.
Origin of Labour
Different analysis have a different story to tell
However the most perfect and the accurate one could be ascribed to the labours that were brought from the Africa to America to work on the sugarcane field and the paddy field. Thus started the movement of the labour.These Africans over the years have now become the AFRO-AMERICANS and some of them like the SERENA-VENUS to cite as an example who are rooted to the AFRO-AMERICAN cult and the society or even Barrack Obama the Ex-President of USA are the prime example of Afro-American society and these are the origins of labour which started at America.
Pics : Afro-American labour
The origins of the labour movement lay in the formative years of the American nation, when a free wage-labor market emerged in the artisan trades late in the colonial period. The earliest recorded strike occurred in 1768 when New York journeymen tailors protested a wage reduction. The formation of the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (shoemakers) in Philadelphia in 1794 marks the beginning of sustained trade union organization among American workers. 
Evolvement of Labour and it’s history
It started with the sugarcane field and the paddy field at America. The labours from the Africa were then subjected to the most CRUEL form of hardship and punishment and they were at times never paid for the manuals etc.
From the paddy field came the cottage factories and the small mills and then the form of the labour changed. Yet the plundering of the labour continued and it did not change
America slowly got into the business of mechanical  work force as the cars and the aeroplanes were their discoveries and then one saw the change of the form of labour again. The labours were then converted into the form of mechanical work force and the concept of industrial work force came into the being
Great Britain saw the inception  of the labours in the Coal mines as Manchester and England had it in plenty and the industrial work force took it’ shape.
Europe slowly started adding the work force in the mills especially the cloth mills and the factories which came out with auxillaries and some also had become the subsidiaries and that  was when the labour completely saw a change in the form of the job that they executed and expediated .
From being to a semi-farmers the laboureres were then the fitters, mechanical workers and the electricians as well as the labourers that was engaged as miners. The complexion changed from a daily field worker to the daily industrial labour force .That was it and that is how the labours have been.
Labour Movement  : From The Initial days To The Modern Complexities
It started at America s said and it spread across all over the world within the passage of the time.
Most notable were the National Labor Union, launched in 1866, and the Knights of Labor, which reached its zenith in the mid-1880s . The movement aw it’s origin when a labour by the name of Samuel Gomper  formed an union of labour at USA
Samuel Gompers : The father Of The Labour Movement Of The World
In the history of America's trade and labor unions, the most famous union remains the American Federation of Labor (AFL), founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers. At its pinnacle, the AFL had approximately 1.4 million members.
Pic:: Samuel Gomper
It is said and believed that it was this Gentleman from USA that conglomerated the labour into such a form that the RIGHTS and the PRIVELEGES of the labour started taking the forms thereafter.
He initiated the movement and pressed many a claim for the benefits to be passed on to the labours . Initially everything did not happen at once but slowly and surely any reforms started coming to the labourers and the most important was the wages which was made uniform and necessary to be paid to the labourers for their effort and the hard work that they were putting into their everyday manual effort.
It took many a years to form the law that would relate to and  regulate the labours and the origin of it was started there itself at America .
Labour Law  and Labour Movement : It’s Origin And It’s shape
Modern US labor law mostly comes from statutes passed between 1935 and 1974, and changing interpretations of the US Supreme Court. However, laws regulated the rights of people at work and employers from colonial times on.
The movement was fed by massive dissatisfaction caused by the dispossession of unlettered agricultural workers previously peasants in some ways protected by feudal lords and their recruitment as industrial workers paid a pittance to produce and live in crowded and unhealthy conditions.
This movement made the HEAD HUNTERS to fall back  and form a Labour law .It also gave the birth to the RIGHTS OF THE LABOUR .These I would put it here as under-:
Three Basic Rights Of The Labours


  • Every Worker has Rights. The Ham Commission Report was instrumental in establishing the three basic rights for workers. ...
  • Right to Know. ...
  • Right to Participate. ...
  • Right to Refuse Unsafe Work.    
    Organised Labour
    Organized labor is an association of workers united as a single, representative entity to improve the economic status and working conditions of employees through collective bargaining with company management. Organized labor groups are also known as unions.
    This union in the later stage and in the time to come proposed the concept of the labour movement
     The simple way to express the labour movement is an organized effort on the part of workers to improve their economic and social status by united action through the medium of labor unions.
    This labour movement brought about the HUMAN RIGHTS and the Basic rights of the labour across the world and it gave birth to the  INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION.
    I shall now lay down the important points of both the rights as ascribed here-:
    Human Right::
    They are based on important principles like dignity, fairness, respect and equality. Your human rights are protected by the law. If your employer is a public authority, they must follow these principles.
    The element's that has gained importance under this rights as of now are
emails.
internet access.
Telephone calls.
data.
images.
  • The Basic Rights-:;
    Once done away with the Human Rights the next was the concept of the basic rights These are enumerated as under::
The right to a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. …
The right to reasonable accommodation for disabilities. …
The right to compensation for work performed. …
The right to protection from employer retaliation
  •  The History Of The labour  Day Movement
    Peter J. McGuire, a carpenter and labor union leader, was the person who came up with the idea for Labor Day. He thought American workers should be honored with their own day. He proposed his idea to New York's Central Labor Union early in 1882, and they thought the holiday was a good idea, too
    Pics - : Peter J Mcquire
    The History of the May-day
    Mayday is the word used around the world to make a distress call via radio communications. ... It was the idea of Frederick Mockford, who was a senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London. He came up with the idea for “mayday" because it sounded like the French word m'aider, which means “help me."
    History Of The Labour Movement At India
     It starts from those colonial days and it  is still prevalent in the age of the IT days.Nevertheless it has seen a lot of water flowing under the bridge but it has it’s start as well from the 1850’s .
  • The 1850s was the conspicuous decade for the sharp increase in the labour intensive industrial development. It was this decade which saw the successful establishment of jute and cotton mills. The coal-fields were connected with the railway junctions to facilitate the supply to the expanding railway system in India.
    Since India was subjected to British industrial interests, the building of railway system and working coal-fields could not give stimulus to industrial revolution. It was not the beginning of a diversified industrial growth, but both a beginning and an ending.
    Instead of writing so much I shall put forward the figures in the form of a chart which depicts the various sector and the age about the labours and the workforce engaged in Indian in terms of the LABOUR-CAPITAL-:
    Pics: History of the Labour Industry In India
  • Role Of Baba Sahib Ambedkar In Modernising and Reforming The Labour Role
  • He played an important role in land reform and the state economic development. ... He emphasised equal rights for women for economic development. He laid the foundation of industrial relations after Indian independence.
    Pic - : Baba Saheb Ambedkar
    Dr Ambedkar's contribution towards society is immense but almost everyone ignores the role of Dr Ambedkar as a labour leader. The Department of Labour was established in the year November 1937 and Dr Ambedkar took over the Labour portfolio in July 1942. The policy formulation and planning for the development of irrigation and electric power was the major concern. It was the Labour Department, under the guidance of Dr Ambedkar, that decided to establish "Central Technical Power Board" (CTPB) for power system development, hydel power station sites, hydro-electric surveys, analysing problems of electricity generation and thermal power station investigation.
    If there is any one person who secured the rights of labourers in India, it was none other than Babasaheb Ambedkar. Without Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, today the future of India workers would have been in pitch darkness. He is the only leader in India who was multi-dimensional and a great visionary. The so-called upper castes never gave credit to Dr Ambedkar's contribution in building a great nation, which is today one of the biggest developing economies of the world. All this has become possible only because of Dr Ambedkar's robust economic policies, which have saved India even in the times of great economic depressions. Be it the founding guidelines of the RBI or the principles governing any other aspect of the economy, Dr Ambedkar has given the best India could ever have had.
    It was Dr Ambedkar who brought in the 8-hour working day to India, bringing it down from 14 hours. He brought it in the 7th session of Indian Labour Conference in New Delhi, November 27, 1942.
    All workers should be grateful to Dr Ambedkar, especially women employees, as Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar framed many laws for women workers in India such as 'Mines Maternity Benefit Act', 'Women Labour Welfare Fund', 'Women and Child Labour Protection Act', 'Maternity Benefit for Women Labour', and 'Restoration of Ban on Employment of Women on Underground Work in Coal Mines'.
    If you are happy with your company providing you health insurance, the credit should go to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. Employees State Insurance (ESI) helps the workers with medical care, medical leave, physical disability caused due to injuries sustained during work, workmen's compensation and for the provision of various facilities. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar enacted and brought it for the benefit of workers. India was the first nation among East Asian countries to bring Insurance Act for the well-being of employees.
    Every increase in 'Dearness Allowance' (DA) which brings a smile on your face, should also be an occasion for you to thank Dr Ambedkar. If you have 'Leave Benefit', bow your head to Dr Ambedkar. If 'Revision of Scale of Pay' cheers you, remember Dr Ambedkar.
    It can be safely said that if workers in India do have rights, it is because of Dr Ambedkar's hard work and his fight for all of us. We are indebted to Dr Ambedkar for all the rights and facilities we have so to celebrate Labour Day in India without recognising the contribution of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar is not only shameful but also hypocrisy. This Labour Day let us remember the best labour minister India ever had and salute him. Salute to Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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  • Shyamal Bhattacharjee
  • Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in marketing
     



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