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Breaking their chains : Mary Macarthur and the chainmakers' strike of 1910

Barnsley, Tony2010

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For two months in the autumn of 1910, hundreds of women chain makers in the Black Country struck out against their employers and won a minimum wage which doubled their incomes. Tony Barnsley tells the forgotten story of the strike, and of the remarkable figure of Mary Macarthur, the trade union o...

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