Match Girls' Strike, 1888
Details:
- Author(s) Beer, Reg
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1983
- Pages 36 leaves; illus
- Publisher Labour Museum
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
An intelligent account of working conditions including sweating and health and safety issues, and other circumstances leading to the strike and of the strike itself. Sections include: 'Survey of the nineteenth century East End social scene'; 'Homework and the East End match industry'; 'Conditions in the East End match factories with special reference to phosphorus necrosos - "phossy jaw"'; 'Trade unionism and the East End match workers'