Global strikes and industrial action

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🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A collection of the latest Witness History programmes, presented by Max Pearson. We look at moments from around the world when workers took industrial action in pursuit of better conditions from geisha in Japan to tortured wig factory workers in South Korea. This programme contains descriptions of torture.

Disney cartoonists went on strike for nine weeks in 1941. They were led by Art Babbitt, Disney’s top animator who created Goofy. The picket line was remarkable for its colourful artwork and support from Hollywood actors.

Anousha Sakoui, an entertainment industry writer for the Los Angeles Times discusses the impact of the Disney strikes and significant moments when Hollywood workers fought for their rights.

(Photo: Art Babbitt leads Disney animators holding placards with cartoon characters at a film premiere. Credit: Kosti Ruohomaa, a former Disney worker, courtesy of Cowan-Fouts Collection)

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1:12.2	the past brought to life by those who were there.
1:15.6	This week with the world in uncertain economic times will be looking at the history of industrial
1:20.0	action.
1:21.0	From Mexican American farm workers in the 1960s, we had people going ahead of the
1:25.2	march and they would organize people to greet the strikers, someplace where they would,
1:30.2	families that would take them in and feed them and there would be a rally at every
1:34.1	place that they went to the brutal treatment of strikers in 1980s South Korea.
1:38.6	The demonstrators are calling for democratic elections and an end to martial law.
1:44.0	30,000 students were on the streets battling with police.
1:48.0	Also, Britain's winter of discontent and the Geisha strikes in 1930s Japan.
1:54.0	Geisha hadn't been fought over in society in general as workers.
2:00.0	So that was very significant in Japan.
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