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workingclasshistory: “On this day, 1 May 1974, hundreds of mostly East African Asian women workers at the Imperial Typewriters plant in Leicester, England began a three-month strike. Although unsuccessful, it was a key moment in galvanising Asian...

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 1 May 1974, hundreds of mostly East African Asian women workers at the Imperial Typewriters plant in Leicester, England began a three-month strike. Although unsuccessful, it was a key moment in galvanising Asian working class resistance in the UK. We tell the history of the Grunwick strike of mostly East African Asian women shortly after this in our podcast: http://bit.ly/2vuCeSW http://bit.ly/2ZNP5xt

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