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In 1968 three struggles by working class women in Britain helped inspire the formation of the women’s liberation movement there: Hull fishermen’s wives fought for better safety on trawlers, despite being told by the bosses to keep quiet; London bus conductresses rebelled for the right to become drivers; and women machinists at the Ford motor company’s giant plant at Dagenham went on strike for equal pay. The Ford women’s strike led to the formation of the National Joint Action Committee on Women’s Equal Rights, a union-based group focussed on equal pay and women’s rights at work. Over four decades later, the Ford strike has. . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/class-gender-the-1960s-and-made-in-dagenham/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
