The Matchgirls

by Bill Owen and Tony Russell

Based on fact, the story tells of a strike by the girls in a match factory in 1888, when unions were still groping for recognition and mass withdrawal of labour was an almost unheard-of strategy in industrial relations. The match-cutters finally rebel against working conditions in which young girls had their jaws rotted away by phosphorus, and discipline was maintained by a system of crippling fines and sanctions. A grim episode, perhaps, but not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0573080445
• ISBN13: 9780573080449
• Release Date: December 1967
• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"