What is recorded here
Lady Chainmakers Monument is a statue in Sandwell, England.
- Recorded date
- 2012-06-09
- Inscription
- IN 1910 OVER 800 WOMEN CHAINMAKERS OF CRADLEY HEATH, KNOWN AS THE WHITE SLAVES OF ENGLAND, DOWNED THEIR HAMMERS IN PROTEST. LED BY MARY MACARTHUR THESE PROUD WOMEN HELD THEIR STRIKE FOR TEN WEEKS, FINALLY WINNING THEIR FIGHT FOR THE FIRST (cont. in note)
- Artist
- Luke Perry
- Artwork kind
- statue
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