“The Distress is Impossible to Convey”: British and German Trade-Union Reports on Labour in India (1926–1928) (Work in Global and Historical Perspective Book 10)

Asian industrial competition, from Japan, China but also India, attracted greater public attention in Europe during the inter-war period than ever before. Indian industrial employment became the subject not only of extensive official enquiries, intensified legislation, a growing number of academic studies and of more popular writings, but also of debates within and between European trade unions.