Working Class Movement

The modern Indian working class arose in consequence to the development and growth of factory industries in India from the second half of the nineteenth century.

Earlier Attempts

• It is only from the late 19th century in Madras, and from the second decade of the twentieth century in Bombay that serious attempts were made for the formation of associations that could lead organised form of protests.
• Prior to that some philanthropists in the 1880s sought to improve working conditions by urging the British authorities in India to introduce legislations for improving its condition. S. S. Bengalee in Bombay, Sasipada ....