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Useful reading for this package:

'It just went like tinder; the mass movement and New Unionism in Britain 1889: a socialist history' by John Charlton. Redwords, 1999.

'A match to fire the Thames' by Ann Stafford. Hodder and Stoughton, 1961.

'Matchgirls strike 1888: the struggle against sweated labour in London's East End' by Reg Beer. National Museum of Labour History, 1979.

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