| | Part Eight
nd the men who brought it to birth

A portent of the ‘New Unionism’: the
| matchgirls’ strike of 1888

j d proceeded to organise
Some of the few hundred match workers at Bryant and May’s who struck, and won their case, an p ga
their - oan In the same year, a resolution was moved in Congress by Miss Black of London: “That in the opinion of this
Congress it is desirable, in the interests of both men and women, that in trades where women do the same work as men,
they shall receive the same payment.”