UPSC Prelims 2017 · GS Paper 1 · Q24

History

Medium · Factories Act, 1881, and the Labour Movement

Consider the following statements:

1. The Factories Act, 1881, was primarily enacted to fix minimum wages for industrial workers and to permit them to form trade unions.

2. N.M. Lokhande is regarded as a pioneering organiser of the labour movement in British India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?