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E67: The Grunwick strike, part 1

Working Class History

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The Rise and Fall of the Labour Party in the UK

After the Mansfield-Hosiery strike, a government commission of inquiry wrote a report detailing union complicity in racist practices. It warned that if unions didn't desist in their racism, then black and Asian workers would form their own unions. The establishment's fear of this autonomous, self-organised Asian and black working class was very real. Economic inequality and absolute poverty were at their lowest levels in history.

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