Organizing women workers in the informal economy : beyond the 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. This crucial book offers vibrant accounts of how women working on farms, as sex...

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Outros Autores: Kabeer, Naila, Sudarshan, Ratna M., Milward, Kirsty
Formato: Livro
Idioma:English
Publicado em: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2013
coleção:Feminisms and development.
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300 |a xii, 299 pages ;  |c 22 cm. 
490 1 |a Feminisms and development 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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