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Smita – Online Submission, 2008
Seasonal migration for work by poor rural families is a phenomenon that is escalating as the agrarian crisis mounts. Millions of families that migrate are compelled to take their children along, leaving school and a normal childhood behind. They spend several months every year at work sites such as brick kilns, salt pans, plantations and stone…
Descriptors: Migrant Workers, Seasonal Laborers, Migrant Children, Migrant Education
Martens, Margaret Hosmer, Ed.; Mitter, Swasti, Ed. – 1994
This book contains a comparative survey of efforts to organize female workers in trade unions in both developing and industrialized nations and 19 case studies of efforts to organize female workers in selected occupations. The following papers are included: "A Comparative Survey" (Swasti Mitter); "The Union of Women Domestic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Laborers, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis