Organizing the Outsiders

Indian lawyer Ela Bhatt helps give informal workers a voice

By David Moberg

Ela Bhatt organizes the unorganized--the very unorganized. In 1971, Bhatt was a lawyer and head of the women's wing of the Textile Labour Association, an Indian labor union, when she met a group of "head loaders," women who carried loads of cloth on their heads and [RETURN TO ARTICLE]