Striking a Light : The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History

Name: Striking a Light
Brand: Continuum Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9781441114266
Price: 5700 KES
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ISBN: 9781441114266

by Dr Louise Raw

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1441114262

ISBN-13 9781441114266

Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation

Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 12th, 2011

Print length 304 Pages

Weight 458 grams

Dimensions 23.30 x 15.70 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: Social & cultural history Industrialisation & industrial history Gender studies: women Strikes

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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. The author gives us a challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women themselves, not celebrity socialists like Annie Besant, began it.

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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