This year B3 Media co-produced and co-curated ‘The Strike at Imperial Typewriters’ with Divya Ghelani (writer/ researcher).
The inspiration for our latest project was the story of how, in May 1974, migrant workers at Leicester’s Imperial Typewriter factor discovered their workmates earned more than them simply because they were white. Some put up with this discrimination. But a group of 39 staff, mostly South Asian women, decided to act. They went on strike and were soon joined by hundreds of others who also demanded equality.
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