The site of Dagenham's original Ford Factory is set to be turned into ... the plant in 1968 led to the passing of the Equal Pay Act 1970, and inspired both the film and musical Made in Dagenham.
British Ford’s agony is acute. Its main plant, which sprawls across the dreary Dagenham mud flats east of London, has what may well be the world’s worst labor record: it has been hit by ...
He said that Yoko Ono first made the statement to him in 1968, and it took him until 1970 to ‘dig it ... sewed the seat covers at a Ford Motors plant in Dagenham, Great Britain, for less ...
But life is about to change forever when it’s announced that the girls in the stitching room of Ford’s Dagenham car plant will have their pay grade dropped to ‘unskilled’. Quickly drawing ...
Ford Motor's new top-of-the-line diesel (photo at right) starting rolling off the production line Friday at the company's Dagenham Diesel Centre in Britain. The new powerplant is a twin-turbo 3.6 ...
In 1968, the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the United Kingdom. In addition to the thousands of male employees, there are also 187 underpaid women ...
The film Made in Dagenham introduced many of us to the women machinists whose 1968 strike at Ford Dagenham led to widespread protest about the gender pay gap and ultimately to the Equal Pay Act 1970.