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1) This historic movie deals with the first strike of the workers of the automobile factory of the American manufacturer Ford to Dagenham, as well as the negotiations which led his leaders to obtain a complete wage equality between men and women, in particular with Labour Secretary of State Barbara Castle.

2) The Labour Party is a British political party of left and center left.
The Labour Party is established in 1900 by labor unions. From 1920s, it outstrips the liberal Party and becomes one of the two left main things of the United Kingdom with the conservative Party.
The Labour Party is now the official opposition to the House of Commons and to the Scottish Parliament, and rules a minority government in the Wales.

Labour Party in the 60s and 70s :

Early 1960s : Downturn in the economy and a series of scandals.

1964 : General election, The Conservative government is engulfed. The Labour Party returned to government with a 4 seat majority under Wilson but increased its majority to 96 in the 1966 general election.

Wilson's government : number of sweeping social and educational reforms under the leadership of Home Secretary Roy Jenkins.

1964 : Abolishment of the death penalty,

1967 : Legalisation of abortion and homosexuality.

1968 : Abolition of theatre censorchip

Also, Comprehensive education was expanded and the Open University created. However Wilson's government had inherited a large trade deficit that led to a currency crisis and ultimately a doomed attempt to stave off devaluation of the pound.

1970 : General election, Labour went on to lose the Conservatives under Edward Heath.

After losing the 1970 general election, Labour returned to opposition, but retained Harold Wilson as leader.

1973 : Heath's government soon ran into trouble over Northern Ireland and a dispute with miners which led to the "three-day week".

The 1970s proved a difficult time to be in government for both the Conservatives and Labour due to the 1973 oil crisis which caused high inflation and a global recession.

1974 (February) : Genral election. A few week after, The Labour Party was returned to power again under Wilson. It was the first general election since 1924 in which both main parties had received less than 40% of the popular vote and the first of six successive general elections in which Labour failed to reach 40% of the popular vote.

1974 (October) : Second election was soon called for October 1974 in which Labour, won a slim majority of three, gaining just 18 seats taking its total to 319. For much of its time in office the Labour government struggled with serious economic problems and a precarious majority in the Commons, while the party's internal dissent over Britain's membership of the European Economic Community, which Britain had entered under Edward Heath in 1972, led in 1975 to a national referendum on the issue in which two thirds of the public supported continued membership.

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