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KEY POINTS

Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

· The Self Employed Women's Assoication. SEWA was born in 1972 as a trade union of self employed women.

· It grew out of the Textile Labour Association , TLA, India's oldest and largest union of textile workers founded in 1920 by a women, Anasuya Sarabhai.

· The inspiration for the union came from Mahatma Gandhi, who led a successful strike of textile workers in 1917.

· He believed in creating positive organised strength by awakening the consciousness in workers. By developing unity as well as personality, a worker should be able to hold his or her own against tyranny from employers or the state.

· To develop this strength he believed that a union should cover all aspects of worker's lives both in the factory and at home.

Organisation

· SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses.

· They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organised sector. They are the unprotected labour force of our country. Constituting 93% of the labour force, these are workers of the unorganised sector.

· Of the female labour force in India, more than 94% are in the unorganised sector. However, their work is not counted and hence remains invisible.

Movement

· The SEWA movement is enhanced by its being a sangam or confluence of three movements: the labour movement, the cooperative movement and the women’s movement.

· But it is also a movement of self-employed workers: their own, home-grown movement with women as the leaders. Through their own movement women become strong and visible.

· Their tremendous economic and social contributions become recognised with globalization, liberalization and other economic changes, there are both new opportunities as well as threats to some traditional areas of employment.