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The Ford Dagenham plant, pictured in 1973

The Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 was a landmark labour-relations dispute in the United Kingdom. It was a trigger cause of the passing of the Equal Pay Act 1970.

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Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968

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The Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 was a landmark labour-relations dispute in the United Kingdom. It was a trigger cause of the passing of the...

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Ford of Britain

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1984. The Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 was a landmark labour-relations dispute in the United Kingdom. The strike began on 7 June 1968, when women...

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Made in Dagenham

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Winstone, Daniel Mays and Richard Schiff. It dramatises the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 that aimed for equal pay for women. Its theme song, with...

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Dagenham

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the location of the Ford Dagenham motor car plant where the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 took place. Following the decline of industry, the...

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Gemma Arterton

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starred in Made in Dagenham, a stage musical about the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 concerning equal pay for women. Since its premiere on 5...

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List of 2010s films based on actual events

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Made in Dagenham (2010) – British film dramatizing the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 that aimed for equal pay for women Mahler on the Couch (German:...

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Barbara Castle

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over the strike by Ford sewing machinists against gender pay discrimination, speaking out in support of the strikers, and overseeing the passage of the Equal...

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Ford Dagenham

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[citation needed] Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 51°30′56.2″N 0°09′12.4″E / 51.515611°N 0.153444°E / 51.515611; 0.153444 Ford Motor Company Dagenham...

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Equal pay for equal work

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Equal Pay Act 1970 in response both to the Treaty of Rome and the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968. In recent years European trade unions have generally...

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the statute books in England and Wales until 1967. 1968: The Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968, led by Rose Boland, Eileen Pullen, Vera Sime, Gwen...

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1968 in the United Kingdom

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Conservative Party. 7 June – Start of Ford sewing machinists strike at the Dagenham assembly plant: women workers strike to have their work valued as 'skilled'...

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Equal Pay Act 1970

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principle. A trigger cause for the introduction of the legislation was the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike, though the legislation also paved the way for...

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1968

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Palestinian-born Sirhan Sirhan is arrested. June 7 – Ford sewing machinists strike for equal pay starts at the Ford Dagenham plant in London. June 10 – Italy beats...

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June 1968

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Kingdom, sewing machinists went on strike at the Ford Dagenham assembly plant, as 187 female workers walked out on strike to demand pay equal to that of men...

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Hillman

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was William Hillman. In 1869 the firm changed its name to the Coventry Machinists Company, and like many other manufacturers in the area embarked on producing...

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Economic history of the United States

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The machinists' skills were called armory practice and the system eventually became known as the American system of manufacturing. Machinists from the...

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