Matchgirls' strike - Wikipedia
In July 1888 the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant & May match factory in Bow, London, England went on strike. At first, the strikers were protesting the dismissal of a worker …
Match Girls’ Strike | History, People, Success, Influence, Enola …
Match Girls’ Strike, walkout in the summer of 1888 by women making and boxing matches for the Bryant & May matchstick company in London to protest the company’s low wages and poor …
The Match Girls Strike - Historic UK
Apr 19, 2021 · In London’s East End, women and young girls from the surrounding area would turn up at 6:30 in the morning to start a long fourteen hour shift of perilously dangerous and …
Meet the matchstick women — the hidden victims of the …
Mar 8, 2018 · The story of the British matchstick girls who in 1888 took strike action against the dominating, patriarchal world of matchstick making isn’t well known. But these were the …
The 1888 matchgirls' strike – The National Archives
In 1888, the women and girls employed by Bryant & May in London's East End went on strike. This prompted a wave of activism now known as New Unionism. What drove these workers to …
The Story of the Strike - Matchgirls Memorial
See how they had fun, dressed up with feathers and knew how to settle their differences with the odd fight too! It was timely then, that on 15th June 1888, the Fabian Society held a fateful …
Sarah Chapman - Wikipedia
The film provides a fictionalized account of the origins of the Matchgirls' Strike, in which both the title character and her brother Sherlock become entangled. [20] Chapman also appears as a …
What was the significance of the Match Girls’ Strike in 1888?
To find out that women worked in such dreadful conditions in the match factories shocked many respectable Victorians. Use the original documents from 1888 in this lesson to find out about …
The Match Girls’ Strike | Sarah’s story - People's History Museum
Jul 5, 2020 · What was the Match Girls’ Strike? At the Bryant & May match factory in Bow, east London, many workers were very young girls and women, working long hours for little pay, …
The Match Girls' Strike Changed the Trade Union Movement
Sep 5, 2018 · The Bryant and May factory in London’s squalid East End turned out matches by the millions. The workers were mostly teenage girls and young women, and the conditions of …
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