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The conditions of the women in the factory is shown very well in the film, the first scene of the film shows the women arriving in a very confined work place on the hottest day of the year, they are still expected to work and start straight away at the ring of a bell, this shows the hardships of their job and why they are unhappy about the re-grading of their labor, this is also shown later in the film when their work is effected by the bad weather because of the poor structure and condition of their work place. The treatment of the women workers themselves is also shown very well through different situations, the personal life of the women is shown through the lack of respect given to them because they lived on the ‘estate’ this meant to others that they workers and their families were some how beneath them. The treatment from the higher authority within Ford was also shown well through the conversation between the bosses at ford and their treatment directly with the women, they sent the women rude letters following their strike thinking nothing would be done of it because they were women, these letters led to the all out stoppage in production. the film is good at showing that in the end they were striking over the treatment of them as women not just as workers, they knew that they were paid less because the company could pay them less because their were no laws for women workers. The character of Barbara Castle gives out facts about the government at the time though out the film for example that in 1966 there had been a Manifesto created to try and make life better for workers in the UK, she reveals that they have failed in doing so and that within the UK there have been 23,000 strikes since and they had lost around 5 million working days because of it.