SEWA, Self Employed Women's Association / Light Night production in coproduction with Television Suisse Romande, TSR ; producer and director, Patricia Plattner.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Plattner, Patricia, producer, director.

Bhatt, Ela R., narrator.

Light Night (Firm), producer.

Women Make Movies (Firm), producer, distributor.

Radio-télévision suisse romande, producer.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Gujarati

Subjects (All):

Self Employed Women's Association (Ahmadābād, India).

Women--Employment--India.

Women.

Women--Employment.

Poor women.

Cottage industries.

Self-employed women.

India.

Self-employed women--India.

Cottage industries--India.

Women--India--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Women--India--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Poor women--India.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Self Employed Women's Association

Title on container: Made in India

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Women Make Movies, [1999]

Language Note:

In English; parts of soundtrack in Gujarati with English subtitles.

System Details:

VHS - NTSC.

analog

magnetic

VHS

NTSC

Summary:

A portrait of the women's organization in India, called SEWA, that holds to the simple yet radical belief that poor women need organizing, not welfare. Inspired by the political, economic and moral model advocated by Gandhi, SEWA has grown since it founding to a membership of 217,000 and its bank now has assets of over $4 million. SEWA is at its core a trade union for the self-employed that offers union membership to the illiterate women who sell vegetables, pick up scraps for recycling from the streets and engage in small cottage industries.

Participant:

Ela R. Bhatt.

Credits:

Camera, Severine Barde.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

48640814