Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910 - Couverture souple

Barnsley, Tony

 
9781905192649: Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1905192649 ISBN 13 : 9781905192649
Editeur : Bookmarks Publications, 2011

Synopsis

For two months in the autumn of 1910, hundreds of women chain makers in the Black Country struck against their employers and won a minimum wage which doubled their incomes. Women who had no vote, were largely illiterate, worked a 54-hour week for a pittance and had to take their children to work with them took on their bosses and proved their economic power. Tony Barnsley tells the largely forgotten story of the strike, a prelude to the Great Unrest which swept Britain in 1911 and of the remarkable figure of Mary Macarthur, the woman who led the campaign.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

For two months in the autumn of 1910, hundreds of women chain makers in the Black Country struck against their employers and won a minimum wage which doubled their incomes. Women who had no vote, were largely illiterate, worked a 54-hour week for a pittance and had to take their children to work with them took on their bosses and proved their economic power. Tony Barnsley tells the largely forgotten story of the strike, a prelude to the Great Unrest which swept Britain in 1911 and of the remarkable figure of Mary Macarthur, the woman who led the campaign.

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Éditeur
Bookmarks Publications
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1905192649
ISBN 13 
9781905192649
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
88
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