Organizing women workers in the informal economy : beyond the weapons of the weak / edited by Naila Kabeer, Ratna Sudarshan and Kirsty Milward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kabeer, Naila, editor.

Sudarshan, Ratna M., editor.

Milward, Kirsty, editor.

Series:

Feminisms and development.

Feminisms and Development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--History.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2013.

Summary:

Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals, often isolated in home-based work, their resistance has tended to be restricted to the traditional weapons of the weak. Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy explores the emergence of an alternative repertoire among women working in the growing informal sectors of the global South: the weapons of organization and mobilization.

Contents:

Introduction: Beyond the weapons of the weak: organizing women workers in the informal economy / Naila Kabeer, Kirsty Milward and Ratna Sudarshan

Understanding the dynamics of an NGO/MBO partnership: organizing and working with farm women in South Africa / Colette Solomon

Organizing for life and livelihoods in the mountains of Uttarakhand: the experience of Uttarakhand Mahila Parishad / Anuradha Pande

Negotiating patriarchies: women fisheries workers build SNEHA in Tamil Nadu / Jesu Rethinam

"If you don't see a light in the darkness, you must light a fire": Brazilian domestic workers' struggle for rights / Andrea Cornwall with Creuza Maria Iliveira and Terezinna Gonçalves

The challenge of organizing domestic workers in Bangladore; caste, gender and employer-employee relations in the informal economy / Geeta Menon

Power at the bottom of the heap: organizing waste pickers in Pune / Lakshmi Naraya and Poornima Chikarmane

Sex, work and citizenship: the VAMP sex workers' collective in Maharashtra /Meena Seshu

Gender, ethnicity and the illegal 'other': women from Burma organizing women across borders / Jackie Pollock

End note: Looking back on four decades of organizing the experience of SEWA / Ela Bhatt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781350221659

1350221651

9781780324548

1780324545

9781299283718

1299283713

9781780324531

1780324537

OCLC:

830162718