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  1. With Babies and Banners: The Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade (1978 Film, Video)

    Director
    Lorraine Grey
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Women’s participation in the key strike of the 1930s in the USA. Layoffs, poverty wages, hazardous working conditions and speed-ups were daily realities for auto workers. Women workers also suffered lower...

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  2. Great Sit Down, The (1978 Film)

    Producer
    Stephen Peet
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An account of how auto workers seized plants at General Motors in 1937 - a single incident which represented a turning point in the American Labour movement. Uses contemporary footage showing pickets,...

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