A History Of Factory Legislation In India - Hardcover

by J. C. Kydd (Author)

How did law reshape the factory and the lives within it? A History Of Factory Legislation In India takes up that question with forensic calm and exact evidence. Workers laboured under harsh rules. C. Kydd's meticulous account traces the legal architecture that governed mills, workshops and foundries across nineteenth century India and the British Raj era, situating statutes against the forces of industrial expansion, social reform movements and economic debate. Clear in its method and wide in its reach, the book functions as both an indispensable economic history book and a lucid study for those interested in industrial history india and labor law history. Kydd follows the debates that produced factory reform india, maps successive labour and labor rights legislation, and connects statutory detail to everyday conditions on the shop floor. The narrative is evidence-led without losing sight of human costs, making the work useful to scholars engaged in comparative labor studies as well as to the curious general reader. Its tone is measured and its exposition disciplined, so complex legal change becomes intelligible to students and lay readers alike; the result is a compact study that sits at the intersection of legal analysis, economic argument and social history. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Carefully edited for modern readers while retaining the original's precise style, this edition makes an important academic reference india readily accessible and classroom-friendly; it is well suited to a university history course on the British Raj era or modules in comparative labor studies. Collectors of classic literature and casual readers alike will appreciate its measured prose and archival sensibility. Historians of colonial india industry, students pursuing labor law history, and those studying social reform movements will find it a steady companion for research and reflection.