Cleator Moor, Cumbria: fighting for women's rights

Cleator Moor, Cumbria: fighting for women's rights

Discussion of evidence relating to a strike by women textile workers at Ainsworth's thread mill, Cleator Moor

Audio discussion of a photograph (provided) of striking women workers meeting with Mary MacArthur of the National Federation of Women Workers. The women are wearing union membership badges. Their jobs related to making linen thread for khaki uniforms to be worn by the military.
In total 250 women and 20 boys were involved in the strike, which succeeded in achieving enhanced wages and bonus payments.

BBC Radio Cumbria

BBC

First broadcast 2014

Discussion of the same photograph in the Whitehaven News, 21 July 2011 http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/home/trouble-at-t-mill-1.860021

Twentieth century, pre-World War One

7 minutes 18 seconds