LI: To identify the significance of the Match Girls Strike of 1888.
Today we had a session with David, our PB4L leader. He was teaching us about the match girls strike of 1888. This Strike of 1888 explains the hardships that the match girls went through, this eventually led to a protest trying to raise awareness for women who don’t get appreciate their hard work by not getting paid.
Our group found this task an interesting activity because we never knew what happened to women back then.
An interesting fact I learnt during this activity was is the phossy jaw is a disease comes from the red dust in the matches they make. The impact this makes is probably losing their job or possibly leading to death.