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Organizing women workers in the informal economy : beyond the weapons of the weak /
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 e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Zed Books,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Feminisms and development.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.