The Great Grunwick Strike: the Past and Present Politics of Class, Racism and Gender

StartsApr 24, 2014 06:00 PM

FinishesApr 24, 2014 08:00 PM

VenueQueens Parade. 12 Willesden Lane, Willesden Green, NW2 5HT

Booking details

Free entry; booking required

Event description

This session will feature a screening of the documentary 'The Great Grunwick Strike, 1976-78' produced by the Brent Trades Union Council. The film deals with a bitter industrial dispute involving union recognition for a workforce that was largely made up of Asian women, and which unfolded in the backstreets of Willesden Green. Trades unionists, feminists and anti-racist campaigners will join us for a discussion of the contemporary legacies of the strike: how class, ethnicity and gender overlapped and diverged during the strike itself, and how the events of that period can inform struggles for equality today.
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