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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 16, 2007
Community Development Journal 2008 43(1):100-103; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm056
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We are Poor but So Many: the Story of Self-Employed Women in India

Flora Cornish

School of Nursing, Midwifery and Community Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK; email: flora.cornish@gcal.ac.uk

Ela Bhatt, Oxford University Press,New York/New Delhi, 2006, 233 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0195169843, £26.99

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When Ela Bhatt, author of this book and founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), expressed doubts about the feasibility of a bank for poor women workers, her colleague, a used garment dealer, responded ‘we may be poor, but we are so many’. Three years, and many struggles later, they had established a profitable bank serving over 11,000 customers with savings and loans, and governed by representatives of its member-customers. This book tells the story of the development of a union of women workers in the ‘informal sector’ in India. It details the almost paralyzing structural challenges, the determination and solidarity of the women, their impressive achievements and their disappointments. It offers an example of how participatory community development efforts, with the right supports, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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