She forged iron chain by hand all day, for a wage that couldn’t feed her.
Cradley Heath, 1910: women were paid as little as five shillings a week — then tricked out of the legal minimum wage they’d just been granted. So 800 of them downed their hammers and struck. After ten weeks, every employer gave in.
They won — and helped make the minimum wage real in Britain.
Send this to a woman who should know their names.
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