Focus is on white working-class north and Midlands, but Newham and Hackney ‘are heartlands too’
Unmesh Desai was 17 when workers at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in Willesden, London, went on strike in 1976. His mother, who had come to the UK from Tanzania and worked in a factory in Huddersfield before moving to the capital, was friends with many of the plant’s mostly female east African Asian employees.
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