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The film “Made in Dagenham” is based on the events of the women’s strike in 1968 at the Dagenham Ford factory. The women on strike worked in the River Plant as machinists, making seats and other furnishings for the finished cars. At the time ford was the biggest manufacture of cars in Europe and the fourth biggest in the world, in which 3,000 cars were being made daily. However even though Ford was such an established company by 1968 the Dagenham factory employed around 55,000 male workers in the factory and only 187 women. The women at the factory had recently had their work status had been re-grading to being a lower skilled trade, they felt they did a as skilled job as the men and didn’t think it was fair they were paid less because they were women, this led to their fight for equal pay. The strike started on the 28th May 1968 and ended on July 1st after receiving a pay rise, which brought them to 92% of what male factory workers earn, they didn’t have their job re-graded from B to C until 1984 following another strike.