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| SEWA, registered as trade union in 1972, evolved as an organization of poor, self-employed women workers who earned living through their own labor or small businesses. These women, unlike the workers in the organized sector, did not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits. As per estimates of the female labor force in India more than 94 percent had been in the unorganized sector. This unorganized sector consisted of jobs as diverse as hawkers, vendors, head-loading goods in markets, stitching cloths at home, rolling beedis |
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and weaving cloth. SEWA's main goals had been to organize women workers to achieve their goals of full employment and self-reliance. For SEWA, full employment meant employment whereby workers obtained work security, income security, food security and social security (at least health care, child care and helter). Similarly, self-reliance meant that women should be autonomous and self-reliant, individually and collectively, both economically and in terms of their decision-making ability. |
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