Factory Girls on Strike in Camden Town

Overview

Factory Girls on Strike in Camden Town 1911 (British Pathé) shows a group of women marching along a road carrying a banner for the National Federation of Women Workers. Formed in 1906 by Mary Macarthur, this was arguably the organisation that did more than any other to unionise women during the strike wave of the 1910s.1 This film was part of an issue of the Pathé’s Animated Gazette, the first weekly newsreel to be produced in Britain in 1910.