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In 2022 English Heritage announced that the Matchgirls' Strike would be commemorated with a blue plaque at the site of the former Bryant & May factory in Bow, London, later that year. [59] The plaque was unveiled at Bow Quarter, Fairfield Road, Tower Hamlets on 5 July 2022 by actress Anita Dobson and Sam Johnson, great-granddaughter of strike ...
Since 2019, a charitable organisation called The Matchgirls Memorial have sought to raise awareness of the matchgirls' strike and its participants. [ 6 ] [ 12 ] Donations were received for the creation of a headstone for Sarah Chapman, [ 13 ] and the charity aims to erect a statue in commemoration of strikers and organisers.
Kate Sclater (or Slater; married name Kate Furnell; 20 October 1863 [1] – 1950) [2] was a British trade unionist and match packer. [3] She was among the leaders of the 1888 Matchgirls' strike, and one of the first members of the strike committee.
The Matchmakers' Union (founded as The Union of Women Matchmakers) [1] was a British trade union formed in 1888 following the successful Matchgirls' strike. [2] [3] On its creation, it was the largest union of women and girls in the country, [4] and inspired a wave of collective organising among industrial workers.
The London matchgirls strike of 1888 was a strike of the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant and May Factory in Bow, London. The strike was prompted by the poor working conditions in the match factory, including fourteen-hour work days, poor pay, excessive fines, and the severe health complications of working with yellow (or white ...
Bryant & May "Pearl" safety matches, 1890–1891. Bryant & May was formed in 1843 by Quakers William Bryant and Francis May to trade in general merchandise. In 1850 the company entered into a relationship with the Swedish match maker Johan Edvard Lundström in order to capture part of the market of the 250 million matches that were used in Britain each day.
1943 Rolls-Royce strike; 1971 Harco work-in; June 1976 protests; C. Cammell Laird Shipyard occupation; I. Istanbul metalworkers' strike of 2008–2009; M. Matchgirls ...
Concern over phossy jaw contributed to the London matchgirls strike of 1888, and although this strike did not end the use of white phosphorus, William Booth and The Salvation Army opened a match-making factory in 1891 that used the much safer, though more expensive, red phosphorus. [14]