India programs / India award OTR-1406-C-1004 · 1982 · labor policies and markets
The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) of Ahmedabad, India - a trade union established in 1972 by a group of women service workers, home-based producers, vendors, and casual laborers - has had amazing success in bettering its members' lives. This indepth study describes SEWA's birth as part of India's large Textile Labor Association (TLA), its evolution over time, and its efforts to address members' problems and needs. Emphasis is on showing why certain organizational efforts succeeded while others did not. The study also discusses SEWA's effects on members, their families, and their businesses; on the development of leadership; and on policy. Finally, it analyzes SEWA's usefulness as a model for organizing self-employed workers. More than 5,000 poor women in Ahmedabad and outlying areas have been involved in SEWA activities. SEWA's goals have been economic regeneration and social uplift - gaining recognition for women's work, raising members' income, and increasing member's control over their income and property. The union organizes struggles for higher pay and better working conditions and defends members against harassment by police and exploitation by middlemen. It als
Source: DEC abstract, PN-AAK-591 (1982). The source's own text.
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Operated in India, 1982 1 source
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