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1976: The WOMEN who made CHAINS | Nothing to Lose | Inspirational Women | BBC Archive
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7:06Now PlayingIn 1910 a strike led by Mary MacArthur saw 800 female chain-makers go on strike over pay. A regional programme about this moment in history spoke to some of those women from Cradley Heath near Birmingham, who gave their personal accounts of this punishing industry, which many of them had started working in as children.
Clip taken from Nothing to Lose: The Strike of Women Chain-makers, originally broadcast on BBC One (Midlands), Tuesday 7 December 1976.
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