History Research Seminar - 'Bolton's Grunwick': Bulmer and Lumb and Asian Working Class Resistance
| Dates: | 18 March 2025 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Shirin Hirsch |
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Join us for the latest in the history external speaker seminar series. Strike leader Pravin Parmar, known to his friends as the ‘Che Guevara of Bolton’, stands with his arm raised, a homemade picket band wrapped around his jacket. It is June 1978 and the Asian workers have walked out of the Bulmer and Lumb mill. For five weeks they strike. ‘Bolton’s Grunwick’, as one radical report put it at the time before the strike, rapidly faded into obscurity. This talk recovers this struggle, situating it within a longer history of Black and Asian workers in Britain.
Speaker
Shirin Hirsch
Organisation: MMU and People's History Museum
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A202
Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
