The Match Girls Strike

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why did they strike?
-14 hour work days, low pay, phossy jaw, excessive fines for talking or going to the toilet
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who joined the strike?
the whole factory
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how long did they strike for?
3 weeks in 1888
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who took up the girls' cause? and what did she write about conditions?
Annie Besant, she wrote a newspaper article
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she was the leader of the?
the union that the girls formed during the strike
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what did the London Trades Council set up?
a fund to ensure the women were provided with strike pay
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what happened each day?
the women and their supporters demonstrated outside the factory gates
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did the government get involved?
no
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was the strike successful?
yes it forced Bryant and May to provide better conditions for the staff such as seperate eating rooms and no fines
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in 1908 what did the government do?
passed a law abolishing the use of the dangerous white phospherous
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Card 2

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who joined the strike?

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the whole factory

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how long did they strike for?

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Card 4

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who took up the girls' cause? and what did she write about conditions?

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Card 5

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she was the leader of the?

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