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Organising Women Domestic Workers in Kolkata


Anchita Ghatak

A large number of women work as paid domestic workers. This sector of women`s employment has not received much activist or academic attention. Domestic workers, or `servants`, are a popular topic of private conversations but do not figure much in public discourse; this invisibility in public discourse and action has to be confronted.

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Professionalising Domestic Services: SEWA Kerala


Nalini Nayak

SEWA–Kerala was registered in 1986 and its members affiliated to the National SEWA Trade Union in 1990. Subsequently, it was registered as a trade union in Kerala in 2008,

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Nirmala Niketan: Streamlining the Domestic Workers` Sector


Subhash Bhatnagar

Nirmala Niketan was formed in 1998 by the tribal girls of Jharkhand, working as full-time, in-house domestic workers in Delhi.

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Bringing Change to the Employer-Employee Relationship in Domestic Work: Astitva


Preeti Kirbat

Astitva is a community based, working women`s organisation in Dehradun that strives to empower and enable women workers from poor socio-economic areas to access better-paid work and, thereby, have increased control over their lives.

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