Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A090
Creator(s): Bryon, Fiona
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )
Date(s): 14 January 1981
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 52' 18".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414140
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Leslie Rosen talks about the 1970 textile strike in Leeds, and his involvement; describes background to the strike (high rate of work for low pay, disparity in male/female pay rises) and knock-on effect of the strike; demonstrations in Leeds; a film and play about the strike; informant's youth - father owned a small tailoring shop, informant worked there until moving to Burton's; describes family home (near Woodhouse Lane, and later in Chapel Allerton); public baths on Meanwood Road; domestic arrangements, cooking, housework, washing in peggy tub; community spirit within neighbourhood and factory; Jewish parents and education; synagogue; cinemas; football; monkey walks; sex; working conditions at Burton's - training schemes; piece work; practical jokes at work, dressing brides-to-be; describes factory premises, factory/trade hierarchy; factory gossip, friends, marriages; Burton's pre-World War Two - social life, dance halls, codes to warn of approaching manager, day trip to London,
sectional trips, hot pot suppers; lunch breaks; women's work/roles during the war; false errands for apprentices; pregnancy; childcare.
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