SEWA is the acronym for the Self-Employed Women's Association, based in Ahmedabad, India. In Hindi (an Indian language), sewa means 'service.' The association, working as a cooperative union, holds the belief that women need organizing, not welfare. The members are poor women working in the informal sector as daily wage workers or running small businesses. This sector represents 94 percent of the Indian workforce. Unlike localized one-issue movements...
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INFORMACIÓN
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2003/01/01
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Documento de trabajo
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51460
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2010/07/01
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Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
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local organizational capacity