Yesterday, rested after a late breakfast we walked along the lakeside with Ann to Chillon and back and made a shopping trip into town. More walking along the lakeside today, and then after supper this evening, we welcomed six congregation members for a showing of 'Made in Dagenham' on the house wide screen TV, with a pizza supper on the lap, prepared by Jane with help from Clare.
It's a thought provoking film, telling the story of the 1968 women machinist's strike at Ford's Dagenham plant which brought the place to a standstill. It was a marvellous expression of militant working class action which became front page international news at the time, as the campaign concerned equal pay for equal work. Most remarkable is that forty years on, pay inequality is still a hot issue in every sphere of economic life. This begs many questions about economic and social structures we have taken for granted over millennia, globally. The film was released in 2010, but this is the first time I've seen it, and glad to have done so, as it as timely as ever.
It's a thought provoking film, telling the story of the 1968 women machinist's strike at Ford's Dagenham plant which brought the place to a standstill. It was a marvellous expression of militant working class action which became front page international news at the time, as the campaign concerned equal pay for equal work. Most remarkable is that forty years on, pay inequality is still a hot issue in every sphere of economic life. This begs many questions about economic and social structures we have taken for granted over millennia, globally. The film was released in 2010, but this is the first time I've seen it, and glad to have done so, as it as timely as ever.
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