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The Rise and Fall of Timex Dundee
1993: Scotland’s last full-blooded strike. For most, working for Timex had been a source of pride, good pay and conditions - it would all end in betrayal and bitter disappointment.
Shown as part of BBC Scotland's People Power season
1993 - Scotland’s last full-blooded strike. Thousands of protestors, police and press outside the Timex Camperdown Factory. The furious death throes of an industry that had employed generations of Dundonians - the vast majority women. For most, working for Timex had been a source of pride, good pay and conditions. It would all end in betrayal and bitter disappointment.
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Sun 5 Oct 202521:00
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‘I don’t know how to work a computer but I can build you one’
Duration: 02:29
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Trailer for The Rise and Fall of Timex Dundee
Duration: 00:21
Broadcasts
- Tue 15 Oct 201922:00
- Sat 19 Oct 201921:00
- Sun 5 Apr 202021:15
- Tue 18 Aug 202022:30
- Sun 11 Oct 202022:00
- Wed 30 Aug 202322:00
- Sun 5 Oct 202521:00
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