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Striking a light : the Bryant and May Matchwomen and their place in history / Louise Raw ; foreword by Sheila Rowbotham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raw, Lousie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strikes and lockouts--Match industry--England--London.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Labor unions--Great Britain--History.
- Labor unions.
- Women in the labor movement--Great Britain.
- Women in the labor movement.
- Rowbotham, Sheila author of introduction, etc.
- Rowbotham, Sheila.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the story of one of the most important strikes in labour history revealing the significance and truth of what actually happened. 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; 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 Women 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; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 14, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9786613205070
- 9781283205078
- 1283205076
- 9781441121042
- 1441121048
- OCLC:
- 747502754
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