Year of the Beaver
2018 | DIRECTED BY Steve sprung
Documentary about the strike at the Grunwick film processing factory in North London, 1976-78. A film about the modern "civilised" state.
The predominantly migrant and female workforce at the photo processing plant began to strike in August 1976 against the long working hours (8am-10pm), bad pay and the permanent work stress. They found themselves on the front line against the employers, government, police and media. For the first time paramilitary organised special branches of the police were used, using extreme violence and arresting 550 people.