Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mär 2011, 2011. Broschur Broschiert

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 1441114262
EAN: 9781441114266

Bestell-Nr: 44661

Bemerkungen: Alles gut erhalten., - 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.

Schlagworte: HISTORY / EUROPE GREAT BRITAIN GENERAL; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ECONOMIC HISTORY; POLITICAL SCIENCE LABOR INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS