ABSTRACT
The MMM, like the women’s wing of AIBEA, was formed mainly due to dissatisfaction with the relative marginalisation of women in the CMSS, but in other ways the two cases are very different. Firstly, these are mainly tribal, relatively uneducated women, who started out as contract workers with miserable wages and conditions. And second, the MMM was unusual in including women members of workers’ families as well as women workers in its membership.
