Abstract
Some 94 percent of working women in India are self-employed — as home-based workers, petty traders, or providers of other services and manual labor. They are undercounted in official statistics, unprotected by labor laws, without access to health care, skills training, or credit. Their situation worsens as traditional support systems break down. SEWA — the Self-Employed Women's Association — was formed as a trade union to give these women political visibility and power over the forces that control their lives. Each stage of the organizing process has been, and continues to be, a struggle. But it is succeeding.
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