A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Who else will support us? How poor women organise the unorganisable in India
This paper discusses how poor women in India have challenged existing middle-class women's organisations, as well as existing, patriarchal trade union structures in the last two decades. They have done this by offering radically different approaches to self-organisation from ‘below’, rather than through rich, upper-caste patronage from ‘above’. The paper offers two differing examples of such organisations, that of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and the Annapuma Mahila Mandal (AMM) to show how this has been achieved. It argues that by directly identifying poor women's urgent need for recognition of their invisible informal sector income-generating activities, both SEWA and the AMM have been highly successful in improving the everyday lives of their members. Self-organisation from below has also led to individual and group empowerment for those usually at the bottom of social and economic hierarchies. The results are impressive and this is reflected in the fact that poor countries elsewhere are attempting to replicate these models in their agendas for development.
Who else will support us? How poor women organise the unorganisable in India
This paper discusses how poor women in India have challenged existing middle-class women's organisations, as well as existing, patriarchal trade union structures in the last two decades. They have done this by offering radically different approaches to self-organisation from ‘below’, rather than through rich, upper-caste patronage from ‘above’. The paper offers two differing examples of such organisations, that of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and the Annapuma Mahila Mandal (AMM) to show how this has been achieved. It argues that by directly identifying poor women's urgent need for recognition of their invisible informal sector income-generating activities, both SEWA and the AMM have been highly successful in improving the everyday lives of their members. Self-organisation from below has also led to individual and group empowerment for those usually at the bottom of social and economic hierarchies. The results are impressive and this is reflected in the fact that poor countries elsewhere are attempting to replicate these models in their agendas for development.
Who else will support us? How poor women organise the unorganisable in India
Abbott, Dina (author)
Community development journal ; 32 ; 199-
1997-06-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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