Made in Dagenham Audio Pack (Scholastic Readers) - English Learning Audiobook for Students & Teachers - Perfect for Classroom Study & Home Education

Great movie - doesn’t back down on the realities of what goes on behind the scenes in the union when their own own cushy interests are more important to the union bureaucrats than the interests of the workers. Also reveals the degree of sexism and misogyny the women were up against and how that made their struggle even more difficult. Unlike the men, they had to fight on multiple fronts: against the greed and ingrained cultural sexism and misogyny of the company; against the parallel greed and self-interest of the union bureaucrats combined with their culturally ingrained sexism and misogyny; and often against the lack of support from the men workers in the plant who had no understanding at all of the nature, depth and implications of the struggle in which the women were engaged. When the going got tough they were often willing to sacrifice the women because they didn’t really appreciate the double duty most women did, how much they sacrificed and how much they gave up to support the men