Description
| Product ID: | 9781441114266 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Striking a Light |
| Subtitle: | The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History |
| Authors: | Author: Dr Louise Raw |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Industrialisation and industrial history, Gender studies: women and girls, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, Industrialisation & industrial history, Gender studies: women, Strikes, England, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End factory and into the history books. The author gives us a challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women themselves, not celebrity socialists like Annie Besant, began it. |
| Imprint Name: | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Publisher Name: | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-05-12 |