Organizing women workers in the informal economy : beyond the weapons of the weak /: beyond the weapons of the weak. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Naila Kabeer, Ratna Sudarshan and Kirsty Milward.
• Other Names: Kabeer, Naila; Sudarshan, Ratna M; Milward, Kirsty
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (314 pages)
• Subjects: 331.4; Women -- Employment -- History; Development studies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; Women -- Employment; Frauenarbeit; Schattenwirtschaft; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781780324531; 1780324537; 9781780324548; 1780324545; 9781780324524; 1780324529; 9781299283718; 1299283713
• Related ISBNs: 9781780324517; 1780324510
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Print version record.
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