Rethinking Our History
In this new weekly show from the host of The Paranormal Lovers we take a look at some of histories less well known events. Why are they less well known? Because " History is written by the victors."
So we are here to look at the other side of the story, and to give people a starting point to learn about the true history of this country.
Rethinking Our History
Episode 28: The Match Girls Strike
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Let's go to Britain this week, during the 1800's of it all. 1888 to be specific.
After a newpaper article came out bringing light to the terrible conditions of the match making factories management attempted to make people sign a form refuting the article.
When they refused, one or more of the employees were fired. This set of a storm of strikes that could have crippled the match making industry.
ROH EP 28 Source Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchgirls'_strike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweatshop#History
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Match-Girls-Strike/