Organizing the Unorganized Workers : Lessons from SEWA Experiences
Published: 2013
Author(s) Name: Nalini Nayak |
Author(s) Affiliation: Nalini Nayak is General Secretary of SEWA Kerala and Secretary of SEWA Bharat
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Abstract
This paper highlights the specificities
of the unorganized sector
workers in the context of ongoing
modernization and development.
It focuses on the varied
facets that have to be grappled
with in building their organizations
as they struggle to survive.
The paper draws on the experience
of the author who has spent
over three decades with workers
of two particular sectors, the
fish workers and self employed
women, both of which developed
their own national organizations.
She critically examines how the
wider support structures that the
trade unions of these sectors related
to, helped develop multi
level interventions that brought
the significance and issues of
these sectors into the mainstream
discourse and thereby challenged
the conventional understanding
of labor organizations
and the State in relating to these
sectors.
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