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- noun Plural form of
matchgirl .
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Examples
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Starting with the London matchgirls strike over working conditions in 1888 and the London bus-girls 'strike for equal pay in 1918, the flame the Ford women machinists kept alive has not yet gone out.
Women didn't just strike in Dagenham Gregor Gall 2010
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Dockers 'strike (London), following a matchgirls' strike, showed growing organizational power among unskilled workers.
1876, May 1 2001
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Rivas's book has a cast of characters that includes a local boxer and a washerwoman, along with the matchgirls and the fishermen in the strategically vital port of La Coruna.
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Flo had been one of Annie Besant's matchgirls and for many years Alfred represented Tottenham on Middlesex county council, and then the London county council.
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One group who suffered were the matchgirls working at the Bryant and May factory round the corner in Fairfield Road (now
diamond geezer 2008
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