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Striking a Light - The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History (Paperback, New)
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Striking a Light - The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History (Paperback, New)
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This is the story of one of the most important strikes in labour
history revealing the significance and truth of what actually
happened. In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed
by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End
factory and into the history books. Louise Raw gives us a
challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women
themselves, not celebrity socialists like Annie Besant, began it.
She provides unequivocal evidence to show that the matchwomen
greatly influenced the Dock Strike of 1889, which until now was
thought to be the key event of new unionism, and repositions them
as the mothers of the modern labour movement. Returning to the
stories of the women themselves, and by interviewing their
relatives today, Raw is able to construct a new history which
challenges existing accounts of the strike itself and radically
alters the accepted history of the labour movement in Britain.
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