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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London ;
New York : Zed Books,
2013
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| Sarja: | Feminisms and development.
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Sisällysluettelo:
- 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.