What the records say
- When
- 1888
- Kind
- Strike
- Coordinates
- 51.51° N, 0.06° W
- Description
- 1888 labour dispute in the UK
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Matchgirls' strike
1888 labour dispute in the UK
In July 1888 the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant & May match factory in Bow, London, England went on strike. At first, the strikers were protesting the dismissal of a worker after employees had refused a demand from Bryant & May management to repudiate an article on terrible working conditions at the factory.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “London matchgirls strike of 1888: About 200 workers, mainly teenaged girls, strike following the dismissal of three colleagues from the Bryant and May match…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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