The Informal Economy and Collective Cooperation in India: Lessons from Ela Bhatt

Sinha, Pravin

dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-18T09:51:27Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-18T09:51:27Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01
dc.identifier	doi:10.17170/kobra-202012112501
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/12413
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.publisher	kassel university press
dc.rights	Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/	*
dc.subject	collective cooperation	eng
dc.subject	cooperatives	eng
dc.subject	informal economy	eng
dc.subject	women workers	eng
dc.subject	trade unions	eng
dc.subject	workers’ right	eng
dc.subject.ddc	300
dc.title	The Informal Economy and Collective Cooperation in India: Lessons from Ela Bhatt	eng
dc.type	Working paper
dcterms.abstract	Increasing informality and inequality have been recognised as the two primary outcomes of the twenty-first century globalisation. With growing intensity of the two problems, the world seems to be returning to the nineteenth-century precarious conditions in the world of work. Absence of judiciable status of the worker in informal economy has caused widespread violations of workers’ rights. Consequently, all the protective legislations and ILO standards have failed to extend the desired protection to informal workers, amongst whom the presence of women is dominant, more so in countries of the Global South. Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of ‘Trusteeship’ functional on the principle of classless cooperation that has proved successful, particularly among women self-employed workers, needs to be examined and emulated. The practice of ‘collective cooperation’ as against ‘collective bargaining’ has not only led to the establishment of harmonious relationship between capital and labour, but has also enabled the SEWA entrepreneurs to work towards securing decent conditions of work with justifiable returns. As collective bargaining is the central principle of social dialogues in a formal economy, collective cooperation ought to become the basic rule for informal economy.	eng
dcterms.accessRights	open access
dcterms.creator	Sinha, Pravin
dcterms.extent	29 Seiten
dcterms.isPartOf	ICDD Working Papers ;; No. 32	ger
dc.publisher.place	Kassel
dc.relation.isbn	978-3-7376-0905-0
dc.subject.swd	Indien	ger
dc.subject.swd	Gemeinschaftsarbeit	ger
dc.subject.swd	Genossenschaft	ger
dc.subject.swd	Schattenwirtschaft	ger
dc.subject.swd	Arbeiterin	ger
dc.subject.swd	Gewerkschaft	ger
dc.subject.swd	Arbeitsbedingungen	ger
dc.subject.swd	Recht	ger
dc.type.version	publishedVersion
dcterms.source.series	ICDD Working Papers	ger
dcterms.source.volume	No. 32	ger
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kup.typ	Monographie
kup.institution	FB 05 / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
kup.binding	Softcover
kup.size	DIN A4