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Royal Commission on Labour in India scrapbooks: Volume 3, 1931 - 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Power, B 2/2/3

Scope and Contents

Includes the following: Factories Bill, 1933, loose at front; copy correspondence and papers on the Commission's work, including an article in the Economic Journal by G T Garratt, 1932, and a follow-up to the same by J H Whitley in the Economic Journal 1933; report of a 'Survey of Women Workers in Jute Mills, 1931-2' by M I Balfour, with a related letter to Beryl Power, 18 July 1932; in middle of volume, letters to BP 1931-32, including a letter from Wedgwood Benn at the India Office, 25 August 1931, thanking her for her work on the Commission, and a letter from J H Whitley, 2 January 1932; towards end of volume, letters 1931-32 concerning the award to BP of the Royal Society of Arts silver medal for her paper on 'Indian Labour Conditions'; articles by BP in 'New India' 27 July and 4 August 1932 on 'Indian Labor Conditions' (being the substance of a paper given to the Royal Society of Arts on 6 May 1932); and, at end of volume, syllabus for a weekend school to be held in Ashington, Northumberland, 27-28 January 1934, on 'The Making of Industrial Workers in India and Russia', for which BP was the Tutor.

Dates

  • Creation: 1931 - 1933

Creator

Extent

1 volume(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Power, Beryl

Finding aid date

2009-02-16 11:11:01+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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