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

by Naila Kabeer

Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals - often isolated in reproductive or other home-based work - their weapons of resistance have tended to be restricted to the traditional weapons of the weak: hidden subversions and individualised struggles.

Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy explores the emergence of an alternative repertoire among...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780324510
• ISBN13: 9781780324517
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"