The distress is impossible to convey : British and German trade union reports on labour in India (1926–1928) Asian industrial competition from Japan China but also India attracted greater public attention in Europe during the inter war period than ever before. Indian industrial employment became the subject not only of extensive official enquiries intensified legislation a growing number of academic studies and of more popular writings but also of debates within and between European trade unions Frontmatter Contents Glossary Introduction: Indian Textile Industries and European Trade Union Delegations in the 1920s Exploitation in India. Report of the deputation sent to India by the Joint Committee of Dundee Jute Trade Unions (1926) Report of Investigations into the Conditions of Indian Textile Workers Presented to the International Federation of Textile Workers by the Secretary The Right Hon. T. Shaw. M.P. (1927) Working India. Its Future and its Struggle. Report of the German members of the deputation sent to India by the International Federation of Textile Workers (1928) Images of Indian Labour in German Trade Union Publications Asian Industrialism Labour Movements and Cultural Nationalism: Interwar contexts of German trade union writings on “Working India” Appendix: Indian Workers’ Delegates at Sessions of the International Labour Conference 1920–1929 Bibliography Acknowledgements Index