Coal Strike: During the Strike, Gender Roles Changed

Elena McMaster of Women on the Line interviews Lynn Beaton about women of the mining village Blidworth in Nottinghamshire during the brutally repressed miners strike. Conclusion looks at changes in gender roles and the legacy of the strike. Part 2 of 2.

Featured speakers/guests:

Writer, union activist and feminist Lynn Beaton, author of Shifting Horizons, about women of the coal strike in UK in the 1980s.

Credits:

Produced by Elena McMaster for Women on the Line, the national women’s program of Australia, produced at 3CR in Melbourne. Adaptation for WINGS by Frieda Werden.

 


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