i) Organisation

New organisations such as Self-Employment Women’s Association (Gujarat), Working Women’s Forum (Tamil Nadu), Sramik Mahila Sangathna (Maharashtra) concerned themselves with the plight of women workers in the unorganised sector. Organising women labour and taking up the issues of their wages, working conditions, exploitation and health hazards became an important task for these women’s organisations. Research on women in the unorganised sector helped in developing new strategies for dealing with the problems of poor rural and urban workers. Anti-price rise movement in 1973-74 was a united front of women’s organisations belonging to several parties.