Rouse, Ye Women – Mary Macarthur & the Women Chainmakers
In 1910 the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath focussed the world’s attention on the plight of Britain’s low-paid women workers involved in the ‘home-working sweated industries’, hammering out chain-links in sheds in the backyards of their homes with their babies and children for 5 shillings (25p) for a 50-hour week.
Led by the charismatic union organiser and campaigner, Mary Reid Macarthur, hundreds of women laid down their tools to strike for a living wage.
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Sat 23 Mar, 7:30pm at Red Brick Auditorium
Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions)
10 Square Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX1 1QG
Sat 23 Mar 2019