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Woman Worker1979 1979-12-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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COMMITICE STOP COMMITTEE NAFF! MAFF!
CUT GRUNWICK CUT CRUSE Photo: Mark Rusher (I.F.L.) NEH COMMITTEE STOP N.AFF!
GRUNWICK OFFNOW! GRUNWICK STRIKE MENIFE BRUNWICKE STOP.
NAFE CUY' GRUNTICE Grunwicks strike-militancy and unity were not enough A piece of progressive legislation. banned women from face-work in the Bolivian tin mines in 1945.
Conditions were-and still are-terrible, but nevertheless, working women did haver the opportunity of winning economic independence.
The possibility of women working down. mines prior to 1945 reflected the fact that Bolivian peasants, generally Quechua or Aymara Indians, allow women to buy and areas as male preserves.
Bolivian tin miners are amongst the most advanced and class conscious workers in the world, but they still cling to the superstitious belief that women bring the devil (El Tio") down the mines with them. Women miners therefore had to remove their voluminous peasant skirts at the mine head and put on men's trousers, which was supposed to fool 'El Tio One former woman miner interviewed recently felt that the changing of clothes symbolised the removal of all the chains of her specific oppression as a woman for the period she spent underground.
Since 1945 conditions have changed. Peasants still come to the mining towns with Bolivian tin miners wo MAI
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