A comparative analysis of trade union ’s strategies to organize informal labour: a study of part time female domestic workers in Delhi.

सार

Trade unions play an important role in society by bargaining for rights of the working class. Their
importance has increased even further in the times of neoliberalism and globalization as the
bargaining power of labor vis-à-vis capital has reduced in the present times. Historically, trade unions
affiliated to political parties in India have focused only on male formal sector workers and ignored
informal and women workers. Consequently, new trade unions came up which were apolitical in
nature and claim to organize informal working women. In this paper, we do a comparative study of
two such apolitical organisations which claim to organize and mobilise part time female domestic
workers in Delhi. We look at their organization model, strategies and challenges in organizing paid
domestic work.