South Asian women who led a strike in a British factory

South Asian women workers led a strike against poor working conditions in a British factory in 1976.

Lakshmi Patel was one of the women who joined Jayaben Desai to picket the Grunwick film-processing factory in North London for two years, defying the stereotype of submissive South Asian women.

They gained the support of tens of thousands of trade unionists along the way.

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