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Synopsis In the eva of globalisation and liberalization trade unions are getting more organised every where and their demands through time for better working conditions, higher wages, and more benefits are increasingly becoming an inevitable part of industrial history. The present volume offers an objective, balanced and holistic outlook on the Orissan trade union movement as an organised socio-political phenomenon. It depicts on a wide canvas of the history of the trade union movement its genesis, growth, development, progress and even recession in India (from 1885-1998) as well as in Orissa (from 1935-1998) and its impact on various industries under IDCOL. While studying the interaction between the driverse, latent and manifest causes which have conditioned the movement, the author mentions that the movement has been shaped and governed by its own dialectics. This is basically as empirical study and the analysis is mostly subjective. Being a scholarly work, this volume offers a valuable study on the industrial life of Orissa and will be immense help to the student and teacher of the department of political science, commerce. Labour Welfare and Industrial Relations.