1 Exploring solidarities & material realities: the case of women domestic workers, SEWA Kerala  Rajib Nandi Research Fellow, Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE): An Introduction DzSSE practices ȋreȌinvent non-capitalist forms of management that allow workers to re- appropriate the means of production and that can re-activate social relations based on cooperation and solidarity.dz The term social and solidarity economy (SSE) is increasingly being used to refer to a broad range of organizations that are distinguished from conventional for-profit enterprise, entrepreneurship and informal economy by two core features. First, they have explicit economic and social (and often environmental) objectives. Second, they involve varying forms of co-operative, associative and solidarity relations. They include, for example, cooperatives, mutual associations, NGOs engaged in income generating activities, womenǯs self-help groups, community forestry and other organizations, associations of informal sector workers, social enterprise and fair trade organizations and networks. Peter Utting (2015) defined SSE as forms of economic activity that prioritise social and often environmental objectives, and involve producers, workers, consumers and citizens acting collectively and in solidarity. He makes distinctions between social economy and solidarity economy. Where social economy expands economic space of people-centered organizations, a form of embedded liberalism that works within the confines of current enterprise but advocates for progressive societal norms that counteract negative consequences of Dzbusiness as usualdz. On the other hand solidarity economy is more radical, pushes the envelope towards systemic transformation. Guérin and Nobre (2014) defines solidarity economy as all production, exchange, savings, and consumption activities that contribute to the democratization of the economy based on the commitments of citizens and focusing on the collective interest and solidarity rather than the search for profit. They argue that most theory on the solidarity economy roots itself in Polanyi, which is uniquely interested in market-  Paper preseŶted iŶ IŶterŶatioŶal CoŶfereŶce oŶ “olidarity EcoŶoŵy Practices of WoŵeŶ iŶ IŶdia, 4-5 March, 2017, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.