{"id":3653,"date":"2010-12-29T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/rip-jayaben-desai-feminist-role-model-and-union\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:49:54","slug":"rip-jayaben-desai-feminist-role-model-and-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/rip-jayaben-desai-feminist-role-model-and-union\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3653 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/rip-jayaben-desai-feminist-role-model-and-union\/attachment\/3654\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_le72j7tafS1qbkli6o1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>RIP Jayaben Desai, feminist role model and union leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/article1011611.ece\">The Hindu, Jayaben Desai, architect of Asian women workers\u2019 movement, dead<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"body\">Jayaben Desai, a pioneer of Asian women workers\u2019  movement in Britain, died after a brief illness. She was 77. She is  survived by her husband and two sons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">The diminutive  India-born Ms. Desai, who moved to Britain from Tanzania in 1969, came  to be known as a &ldquo;lioness&rdquo; for her role in leading the two-year long  strike at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories, north London, in  the 1970s to demand union recognition for its largely Asian and female  workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">She famously told a manager : &ldquo;What you  are running here is not a factory, it is a zoo. In a zoo, there are many  types of animals. Some are monkeys who dance on your fingertips, others  are lions who can bite your head off. We are those lions, Mr Manager.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Recalling  her memorable taunt, Labour MP and Jack Dromey, a former trade union  leader who worked with her during the Grunwick dispute said: &quot;She was  4ft 11 tall, but an absolute lioness.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">The Grunwick  strike (1976-78), regarded as a seminal moment in British trade union  movement, was sparked by the dismissal of Devshi Bhudia, a male worker,  for working &ldquo;too slowly\u2019\u2019. Ms Desai who walked out in support along  with other workers, including her son, was dismissed . Most of the  workers at the factory were women, mostly Indian, and as they took to  the streets led by Ms Desai with her trademark handbag they were fondly  dubbed the &#8220;strikers in saris\u2019\u2019. Although workers failed to achieve  their demand, the strike helped highlight the oppression of migrant  women workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">In what <em>The Guardian<\/em> said was  her last known public statement, Ms Desai told the newspaper: &quot;I am  proud of what I did. They wanted to break us down, but we did not  break.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP Jayaben Desai, feminist role model and union leader via The Hindu, Jayaben Desai, architect of Asian women workers\u2019 movement, dead Jayaben Desai, a pioneer of Asian women workers\u2019 movement in Britain, died after a brief illness. She was 77. She is survived by her husband and two sons. 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