Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

Introduction. Beyond the Weapons of the Weak: Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy
Naila Kabeer, Kirsty Milward and Ratna Sudarshan

1. Women and Rural Trade Unions in North-East Brazil
Ben Selwyn

2. Understanding the Dynamics of an NGO/MBO Partnership: Organizing and Working With Farm Women in South Africa
Colette Solomon

3. Organizing for Life and Livelihoods in the Mountains of Uttarakhand: the Experience of Uttarakhand Mahila Parishad
Anuradha Pande

4. Negotiating Patriarchies: Women Fisheries Workers Build SNEHA in Tamil Nadu
Jesu Rethinam

5. 'If You Don't See a Light in the Darkness, You Must Light a Fire': Brazilian Domestic Workers' Struggle for Rights
Andrea Cornwall with Creuze Oliveira and Terezinha Gonçalves

6. The Challenge of Organizing Domestic Workers in Bangalore: Caste, Gender and Employer-Employee Relations in the Informal Economy
Geeta Menon

7. Power at the Bottom of the Heap: Organizing Waste Pickers in Pune
Lakshmi Narayan and Poornima Chikarmane

8. Sex, Work and Citizenship: the VAMP Sex Workers' Collective in Maharashtra
Meena Seshu

9. Gender, Ethnicity and the Illegal 'Other': Women from Burma Organizing Women Across Borders
Jackie Pollock

Endnote. Looking back on Four Decades of Organizing: the Experience of SEWA
Ela Bhatt