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Author Raw, Louise

Title Striking a Light : the Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History
Published London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (540 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Methodology and Review of Literature; 1: Angels in the House and Factory Girls; 2: Haunted by the Woman Question: The Victorian Labour Movement and Woman Workers; 3: Life, Work and Politics in the Victorian East End; 4: Liberals and Lucifers: Bryant and May and Matchmaking; 5: The 'Notorious' Annie Besant: The Strike Leaders Reconsidered; 6: 'One Girl Began': The Strike and the Matchwomen; 7: The Matchwomen, the Great Dock Strike and New Unionism; 8: Matchwomen, Dockers and the London Irish Community
9: In Search of the Matchwomen: Case Study and Primary Evidence10: Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; eCopyright
Summary 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 b
Notes Print version record
Subject Rowbotham, Sheila, author of introduction, etc
SUBJECT Rowbotham, Sheila fast
Subject Strikes and lockouts -- Match industry -- England -- London
Labor unions -- Great Britain -- History
Women in the labor movement -- Great Britain
Labor unions
Strikes and lockouts -- Match industry
Women in the labor movement
England -- London
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441172150
1441172157
9781441121042
1441121048