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Industrial Dispute in Comparative Perspective

Abstract

Before embarking upon the anatomical analysis of the term ‘trade dispute’, it is expedient to cast a glance at the historical evolution of the definition in its chronological progression. Originally, the term was defined by having reference to the parties to it and the subject matter of the dispute. As far as parties to the dispute were concerned, law confined it to the employers and the workmen and the workmen and the workmen . As to the subject matter, it could be about offering employment, dismissals, and terms of employment or conditions of the labour of any person3 . At the outset, the connection between the subject matter and the dispute was based on the words ‘in connection with’. This arrangement, it is submitted, remained in vogue till 1971- the year in which, as result of an amendment, the scope of industrial dispute was broadened by including therein suspension and termination of employment, allocation of work and procedure agreements. Another change, which was introduced in this piece of legislation, was that the ‘trade dispute’ was rechristened ‘industrial dispute.

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