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A DETERMINED WOMAN remembers the days when black and Asian women were herded into very low paid jobs.
“Imagine how humiliating it is for us, particularly for the older women, to be working and to overhear the employer saying to a young English girl, ‘You don’t want to come and work here, love. We won’t be able to pay the sort of wages that’ll keep you here.’”
Jayaben Desai, Leader of the Grunwicks strike, 1976-78, where Asian women went on strike for equal wages, speaking to Amrit Wilson
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