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A short podcast about Jayaben Desai, a worker who defied stereotyping all her life. In August 1976, she led a walkout at the Grunwick film processing plant in Willesden, London. Desai and her co workers were...
The Battle of Orgreave was a re-enactment of one of the most violent confrontations of the 1984/5 miners strike, when police mounted a cavalry charge through the mining village of Orgreave in south...
Drama based on true events surrounding the Liverpool dockers’ dispute, which began in 1995, preceded by a documentary recounting of how a group of sacked Liverpool dockers joined with Jimmy McGovern and...
A video compilation about the Liverpool dockers’ dispute begun in September 1995. 1 (18 min): Women’s support for the strikers, as Women On the Waterfront (WOW) face icy blizzards and police on the...
Through the memories of women workers in Oxfordshire, their struggles and determination to stand up for both trade union and women’s rights are demonstrated. Uses archive material, including the first...
Shows the activities of striking miners and the women’s support group during the period up to Christmas 1984 in the village of Penrhiwceibr in South Wales. Through an impressionistic combination of...
Attempts to analyse the events at Orgreave Coke Works in June 1985 when 95 miners were arrested and charged with riot and unlawful assembly. Stills, amateur film and eye witness accounts tell a different...
Miners look back at the 1984-85 strike and discuss what they thimk were its strengths and weaknesses. Part 1 is a debate on mass picketing. Part 2 concerns the way the strike ended and assesses the mood in...
Compares British and American newsreel coverage from the 1930s to examine the film evidence on the nature of industrial strikes. The nature of industrial action in the two countries is also discussed.
Documents aspects of the miners’ strike which began in March 1984, showing the ‘battle of Orgreave’ and the part played by the miners’ wives, the mass arrests of pickets and violence on the picket...
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