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

Paperback • 2013 • Norwegian Bokmål

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

By Naila Kabeer

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About the book

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 women working in the growing informal sectors of the global...Show more

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9781780324524

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[Place of publication not identified] : Zed Books Limited

Published year

2013

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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