Edited by Margaret Hosmer Martens and Swasti Mitter
International Labour Organization, Geneva, 1994
ISBN 92-2-108759-X, 205 pages

Abstract
In many parts of the developing world, women generally find jobs in small-scale enterprises in the rural and urban informal sectors, in home-based units or domestic service. With deregulation, liberalisation and rapid changes in technologies, the informalisation of employment is now taking place in higher tech industries and in the developed world as well. In the face of the growth of flexible forms of employment, it becomes difficult to persuade workers to join workers' organizations, as workplaces are scattered and the means for collective action is often lacking.
Drawing on the organising experiences of women workers from the developing and developed parts of the world, the book suggests innovative ways of unionising workers in the changed economic environment. The book emphasises the need to take up women-specific issues in collective action for the long-term survival of trade unions.

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