2010 film Made in Dagenham told the strikers' story. The female factory workers who went on strike to campaign for equal pay at Ford's Dagenham factory are to be memorialised in a new sculpture. In 1968, female sewing machinists at the east London plant took part in the first Ford Factory Sewing Machinists’ Strikes, which led directly to the Equal Pay Act of 1970. A second round of strikes in 1984-85 got their skills recognised as equal to those…
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