TY BA Pune University - Sociology : List of Important Work, Date, People and Organizations

• Daniel Bell - 1973 - "The Coming of Post Industrial Society"
• Max Weber - Bureaucracy, Formal Relations
• Robert Merton - Dysfunctions of bureaucracy
• Henry Ford - Moving Line Assembly for Model T 
• Peter Blau - 1963 - Classic Study of Informal relations
• John Meyer and Brian Rowan - Argued that formal rules & procedures in organizations are usually quite distant from practices actually adopted
• Michael Piore and Charles Sabel - 1984 - The second Industrial Divide (popularized post-fordism phrase)
• Adam Smith - 1776 - Wealth of Nations - advantages of division of labour. (1 worker 20 pins a day. 10 workers 48000 pins)
• Frederick Winslow Taylor - 1865-1915 - Scientific Management, Time studies
• Frank & Lillian Gilbreth - Motion studies 
• J. D. Bernal - 1939 - Introduced term Scientific & Technical Revolution
• Upton Sinclair - 1930s - "White Collar" term
• Sidney and Beatrice Webb - Definition of Trade Union
• Barbara Lee and John Nellis - Privatization

• AITUC - All India Trade Union Congress - 1920 [9.24 lakh]
• INTUC - Indian National Trade Union Congress - 1947 (Congress) [27.06 lakh]
• HMS - Hind Mazdoor Sabha - 1948 (Praja Socialist Party) [14.66 lakh]
• UTUC - United Trade Union Congress1949 (Radicalists) [8.03 lakh]
• BMS - Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangha (Bhartiya Janata Party) [31.7 lakh]
• CITU - Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CPI (M)) [17.98 lakh]
• NFITU - National Federation of Independent Trade Unions [5.30 lakh]

• Shri V. V. Giri - Drawbacks of Indian Trade Union Movement

• Industrial Truce - Nov 1962 - joint meeting of Central Organization of Employers & workers - no work interruption during emergency
• NAPB - National Arbitration Promotion Board - Jul 1967 - promote voluntary arbitration to settle industrial dispute

  

• CSO - Central Statistical Organization
• NCEUS - National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized sector - Sep 2004
• NCRL - National Commission on Rural Labor

• Andy Ellis - Ruskin College, Oxford - Study on Job Stress