History of Myanmar's labour movement (p.3 - 5/505)

This post covers the index (pages 3 to 5; page 2 was blank) of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary:

အသွင်အပြင် ။ form, appearance
ဝါဏိဇ္ဇ ။ trade, commerce
ယန္တရား ။ machine
တန်ပြန် ။ retaliate; counteract
ထိုးနှက် ။ attack with force; beat up sb.
ဖူလုံရေး ။ sufficiency
အက္ခရာစဉ် ။ alphabetical order
အညွှန်း ။ index

Translation:

Table of contents

List of tables ... 6
Author's preface ... 9

Part 1

1. The social system of old Myanmar ... 15
2. Colonial rule ... 21

Part 2

3. International Worker Day (May Day) ... 31
4. Myanmar and May Day ... 37
5. Summary of international worker history ... 39
6. The Federation of International Workers ... 52
7. Myanmar and the International Federation of Workers ... 58
8. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ... 64
9. Confederation of Christian Trade Unions ... 68

Part 3

10. International Labour Organisation (ILO) ... 73
11. The ILO and Myanmar ... 77
12. The Myanmar government labour department ... 85
13. Labour policy ... 88

Part 4

14. The Myanmar labour force ... 101
15. Indian workers who have immigrated [to Myanmar] ... 110
16. Migrant Chinese workers ... 114
17. Women workers ... 120

Part 5

18. The history of labour law ... 131
19. Myanmar labour laws ... 135
20. Civil servant workers ... 155

Part 6

21. Promulgations concerning free association ... 163
22. The right to freely organise Myanmar worker unions ... 167
23. The start of Myanmar worker organisation ... 178
24. The emergence of the Myanmar Worker Federation ... 193
25. Forms of worker organisation in the post-war period ... 206
26. National troops and working class organisations ... 264

Part 7

27. Basic rights concerning worker unions ... 279
28. Workers and strikes ... 284
29. The mechanics of industrial disputes ... 290
30. 1914 - 36 : The first period of worker struggles ... 296
31. 1937 - 41 : The second period of worker struggles ... 308
32. 1946 - 50 : The post-war period of worker struggles ... 333
33. Government records of the industrial disputes of imperial capitalists ... 386
34. The retaliation of the imperial capitalists ... 391

Part 8

35. Showing the base of Myanmar's economy ... 403
36. The wage problem ... 421
37. The price rate of personal commodities ... 433
38. The danger of injury ... 441
39. A plan for a project of social sufficiency ... 445

Part 9

40. The life of workers in the Japanese period ... 453
41. Communication between workers of the Asian continent ... 459
42. The matter of workers in Asia and Africa ... 466

Appendices

--. Reference list ... 475
--. General alphabetical index ... 477
--. Alphabetical index of names ... 501