Fostering collective endurance: The history of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India
本文通过印度自雇妇女协会（SEWA）的历史，探讨全球南方社会创业如何应对长期欠发达和资源稀缺，强调集体耐力如何帮助贫困女性工人建立渴望能力，并颠覆英雄式社会企业家与受害者受益人的二元对立。
How does social entrepreneurship in the Global South cope with chronic underdevelopment and resource scarcity? In response, this comment turns to the history of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), the largest trade union in India representing self-employed women workers in the informal economy, and its work among poor women in promoting several successful cooperatives. It argues that SEWA fostered collective endurance amongst its members, thereby building their capacity to aspire. Such collective endurance subverts the binary conceptions of ‘heroic’ social entrepreneurs and ‘victim’ beneficiaries. Instead, SEWA’s history exemplifies empowerment rooted in the strength of sisterhood and subaltern feminist solidarity among poor, women workers in the Global South.