Co-operation is the solution: A Visit to SEWA, India’s oldest and largest women’s co-operative movement, spanning diverse sectors from vending and retail to banking and insurance, turns out to be an eye-opener for Mumbai’s women fishworkers

S. Peke, Shuddhawati (2013) Co-operation is the solution: A Visit to SEWA, India’s oldest and largest women’s co-operative movement, spanning diverse sectors from vending and retail to banking and insurance, turns out to be an eye-opener for Mumbai’s women fishworkers. Yemaya (44). pp. 9-11. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

For generations, women fishworkers in the state of Maharashtra in India’s western coast have sold fish. Mumbai,the capital of Maharashtra and India’s economic capital, has 53 municipal fish markets and approximately 70 street fish markets; in addition, countless vendors move door to door throughout the city and its suburbs selling fish.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM374
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, India, Maharashtra, Self Employed Women`s Association (SEWA), Cooperatives, Women, Insurance, Capacity Building, Governance, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 12:21
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2022 11:04
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/789

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