Organizational and Negotiating Power: Ability to Initiate Change
İÇİNDEKİLERTable of contentsList of acronyms and abbreviations Preliminary note Modular structure A. Organization for breaking out of poverty A.1 Poverty, powerlessness and gender A.2 Empowerment - ability to initiate change A.3 Empowerment through organization A.4 Obstacles to organization by the poor A.5 What type of organization? B. Building an enabling environment for organization and developing new strategies B.1 Legal and policy environment B.2 Trade unions: Innovative strategies B.3 Major question: Mixed or all-women organizations? B.4 Role of external assistance: Often necessary, but carries risks B.5 Development projects: Creating new dependencies or not? C. Guides for action To summarize Bibliography Boxes 1. Jalq'a women weavers organize 2. The women of Rangpur, Bangladesh 3. Collective bargaining 4. An enabling environment for workers' organizations -ILO labour standards 5. Training women leaders to organize women workers in the rural sector 6. Organizing informal-sector women in Cote d'Ivoire 7. Networking for the legal and social protection of homeworkers  |
