Cleaners' Organizing in Britain from the 1970s: A Personal Account

The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 177-194

  Rowbotham, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"Night Cleaners' Campaign"; 1998 Ken Loach film "Bread and Roses"; Barbara Castle's Equal Pay Act, and women's low pay; Cleaners' organizing in Britain, 1970s; Contract cleaning industry, marginal to trade unions; Ford's sewing machinists, and equal pay for women; North American "Justice for Janitors" campaign; Organizing cleaners, big Canary Wharf building, London; The Cleaners' Action Group

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EID: 84886810966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444397406.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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