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Match Girls07 April 2005
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"Pale, thin, undersized" and "ragged", the match girls were unlikely heroines of labour militancy

In 1888, a group of women workers went on strike and sparked the birth of the modern trade union movement.


Hazard! Health in the workplace over 200 years - The People's History Museum
TUC: The Match Workers Strike Fund Register

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