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- ISBN 9781739223328
- Dimensions: 254 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2023
- Publisher: Newcastle Libraries & Information Service
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book takes us back to the beginning of the 1980s against the background of the impending miners’ strike and the strained relationship between the unions and the Thatcher government. Caroline Barker Bennett recorded the experiences of twenty women industrial workers on Tyneside. The eldest of these women started work in 1934 and the youngest in 1981. These interviews are documented here and give a unique insight into the lives of working women at the time.
Working as an industrial chaplain, Caroline got to know the women through visiting George Angus, an engineering company in Wallsend, and Louise Argyle, a women’s clothing co-operative, in Hebburn. These fascinating oral accounts document the changing conditions, struggles and everyday experiences of working in many different factories, shops and offices and are a valuable contribution to an important part of the region’s social history that is often overlooked.
Caroline Barker Bennett was born in Limpsfield, Surrey in 1944. She read English at New Hall, Cambridge and then taught English for four years before, first, running a youth and community centre in Clapham and then working for a youth project in rural Surrey. She became a Lay Reader in Southwark Diocese in 1976 and moved to Newcastle Diocese in 1977 to be an Industrial Chaplain. In 1990 she moved to Manchester to be the Director of Education for the Diocese. Her final job was in the same role for Bristol Diocese. She now shares a house with her sister beside the River Wylye in Wiltshire
