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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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    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 (category Ford of Europe)
    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 (category Districts of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham)
    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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  • Based on the 2010 film of the same name, which in turn was based on the real events of the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968, the musical made its...
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    Gemma Arterton (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    [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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  • Dagenham (2010) – British comedy drama 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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  • 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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  • 2010 film Made in Dagenham, Nigel Cole's film about the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike at Ford Dagenham, where female workers protested against sexual...
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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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    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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    The matchgirls' strike of 1888 occurred at the Bryant & May match factory in Bow. The sewing machinists strike at Ford Dagenham in 1968 was a landmark...
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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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    for the introduction of the law is considered to be the Ford sewing machinists strikes of 1968, in which the seamstresses at Ford Motor Company Limited's...
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  • Hillman (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
    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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    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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  • "The Church and the Second Sex". 850 sewing machinists at Ford in Dagenham, which is in Britain, went on strike for equal pay and against sex discrimination...
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