In 1946, after a series of stormy strikes and a mass occupation at Ford’s plant in Dagenham, Essex, thousands of workers came together in a new branch of the Transport and General Workers Union.
Later, in 1968, a band of female sewing machinists brought branch 1/1107 to explosive life after they walked out in protest against sexual discrimination, demanding equal pay. The strike was successful and lead to the Equal Pay Act 1970.

The Speakers:

Sheila Cohen is a senior researcher at the Work and Employment Research Unit, University of Hertfordshire and author of Notoriously Militant (2013), covering the history of Ford’s Dagenham plant and its roots in Henry Ford’s early US activities.
Professor Miriam Glucksmann is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Essex. Published under the pseudonym Ruth Cavendish, she is the author of Women on the Line (1982), a seminal ethnographic study of migrant and minority ethnic women working on an assembly line.

 Date: Thursday 29 October 2015
 Time: 16.00pm – 17.30pm (followed by refreshments)
 Venue: 6.345

The seminar will be followed by a screening of Made in Dagenham.

This event is open to the general public.