Organizing women workers in the informal economy beyond the weapons of the weak

Table of 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.…”
Available online from ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2013