Title Striking a light : the Bryant and May Matchwomen and their place in history / Louise Raw.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 286 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	Originally published 2009.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-281) and index.
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.
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Subject	Strikes and lockouts -- Match industry -- England -- London.
	Strikes and lockouts -- Match industry.
	England -- London.
	Women in the labor movement -- Great Britain.
	Women in the labor movement.
	Great Britain.
	Labor unions -- Great Britain -- History.
	Labor unions.
	History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Raw, Louise. Striking a light. London ; New York, N.Y. : Continuum, 2011 9781441121042 (DLC) 2011414601 (OCoLC)648934531
ISBN	9781441121042 (electronic book)
	1441121048 (electronic book)
	9781441114266
	1441114262
	9781847251473
	1847251471