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Trico: A Victory to Remember
by Sally Groves and Vernon Merritt
(Lawrence & Wishart, £25)
ON THE afternoon of May 24, 1976, 400 women walked out of the Trico factory in Brentford, west London, demanding their right to equal pay with their male colleagues for doing the same work. Supported by 150 men they won one of the most important, if now largely forgotten, equal pay campaigns.
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