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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. The success of the ten-week strike more than doubled their earnings and helped to make the principle of a national minimum wage a reality.

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Neil Gore, John Kirkpatrick

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Archive listings for Rouse Ye Women (2019)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

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Through rousing traditional songs and moving ballads, Townsend Theatre Productions reveals the horrors of sweated labour, Mary Macarthur's stunning national campaign to expose the perpetrators of this appalling employment, the universal sympathy for the workers, the flood of donations, and the events that led to a final victory.Company Townsend Theatre Productions.
12 Apr 19The Maltings, Berwick-on-Tweed :: V986
listing details L0982026662
2 Apr 19 to 3 Apr 19OFS Studio (previously known as Old Fire Station Theatre), Oxford :: V800
listing details L1632278614
26 Mar 19BEAM Hertford, Hertford :: V11900172
listing details L1426019268
19 Mar 19 to 23 Mar 19Tara Theatre, Outer London :: V292
listing details L888671830
8 Mar 19mac birmingham - Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham :: V146
listing details L1952433805
6 Mar 19Cast, Doncaster :: V1545109680
listing details L1261757886
5 Mar 19Artrix, Bromsgrove :: V073680848
listing details L0255583984
23 Feb 19Lighthouse (previously known as Poole Arts Centre), Poole :: V910
listing details L0679715413
21 Feb 19Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington :: V903
listing details L0211519342
20 Feb 19Dorchester Arts Centre, Dorchester :: V1068
listing details L0231476028

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