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The Scottish women workers who took on corporate America

Let’s go back to 1981 Inverclyde, where more than 240 women staged a seven-month sit-in over American jeans in one of Scotland’s most remarkable acts of industrial resistance.
A group of 17 women celebrate the success of the sit in, with Helen being carried aloft her colleagues' shoulders.
Around 240 workers occupied the Lee Jeans building in Greenock for seven months.

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