Labour Policy in the Fourth Plan

S D Punekar The immediate post-Independence period was marked by the enactment of comprehensive labour legislation and pervasive state intervention in labour matters. Though the Industrial Truce Resolution of 1947 pleaded for "the fullest co-operation between labour and management and stable and friendly relations between them" and for settlement of ail disputes "through mutual discussion", state control over labour and managment became in practice the determining factor in industrial relations.