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Julie Waterson (1958-2012): our most fearless fighter A Lee Jeans factory in Greenock, Scotland, was occupied in 1981 for seven months by 240 women to prevent work being moved to Northern They occupied factories, such as the Fakenham shoe factory in Norfolk in 1969, taken place: the Lee Jeans occupation at Greenock and the Liverpool typists'

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25YEARS AGO THE seven-month sit-in by the 140 women workers at Greenock's Lee Jeans factory had a fairytale ending with news that their Tourism, took part in a members' business debate to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the sit-in by women at the Lee Jeans factory, Greenock One of the first struggles she worked around was the 1981 occupation of the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock by 240 mainly women workers.

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Lee Jeans, Everybody wears Jeans Holyrood honours Lee protesters, Evening Times Three women at the forefront of a seven-month factory sit-in visited Holyrood to Hundreds of women occupied the Lee jeans plant in Greenock in 1981 in a bid

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Socialist Party: Marxism But from the moment women went into factories and workplaces, they When the American owners of the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock Lee is a brand of denim jeans, first produced in 1889 in Salina, Kansas. in 1981, 240 factory workers in Greenock, Scotland, staged a sit in