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They only earned 4 shillings a week which is 20p a week in today's money.

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They weren't allowed to go to work if they had phossy jaw

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They used chemical weapons that contain white-red phosphorus

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They were paid 4 shillings a week for double work 4 shillings is 20p.

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The strike of 1888According to the East London Advertiser, most of the strikers were of Irish descent and aged between 15 and 20. Recent research suggests that others were Jewish. While Annie Besant is often credited with having organised the strike, it was in fact these young, working-class women who initiated it.

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They worked even though they were getting paid less and they would get really sick.

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Phosporus necrosis of the jaw, commonly called 'Phossy Jaw' was a really horrible disease and overwhelming disease of the poor. Workers in match factories develouped unbarable abscesses in their mouths, leading to facial disfigurement and sometimes fatal brain damage

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At Bryant & May girls and boys as young as 14 were regularly employed. Casual and sweated labour, marked by irregular work and poor conditions, was common. 'Matchgirls' is a term used to refer to women and teenage girls who did various jobs in the factory, including dipping, wrapping, cutting down and boxing matches

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the percent of phossy jaw in the factory was 19.15%

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These early matches had a number of problems – an initial violent reaction, an unsteady flame, and unpleasant odor and fumes.

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The risk of Phossy jaw in the factory was 19.15%.

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Necrosis eats your flesh and turns your skin black

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they would often get sick becuase it wasnt a safe envierment

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They worked 14 hours a day in poor conditions

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Necrosis eats flesh🤮

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They worked 14 hours a day!

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Their strike was important because they exposed the poor working conditions in the factory.

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phossy jaw eats away at the jaw bone

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This helped with the suffrage movement as it showed that they when they were desperate for the money they fought really hard to get it. They held the strike until the manager gave in!

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The sick people could not stay home if they wanted to have their MONEY!

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The Matchstick Girls didn't get paid if they arrived late, made a mistake, dropped something or going to the toilet

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'Phossy jaw' vanished until it recently reappeared in the 21st century.

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in winter the match stick girls worked up until 8AM and there usual time was 6AM

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the matchstick girls were ill but they still fought through the pain to get money

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The working conditions were very poor and in the article that Anne Besant wrote she quoted it as 'White Slavery'.

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the match stick girls were called as slaves because they were poor and could not afford any thing for there familes they were described as the matchstick girls because they would make over a 1000 matches a day

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The Matchstick Girls strike started on the 2nd of July 1888 and ended 21st of July 1888!

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The Matchstick Girls went on strike cause they had very low wages and wanted more money as they worked double and got paid the same amount

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The breathed in phospherous and that was how they got the bone cancer phossy jaw

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they were called matchstick girls becuase they would make matches

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The Matchgirls often hid that they had phossy jaw because of their managers .

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What caused 'Phossy jaw' was the use of chemical weapons that contained white phosphorus.

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The factory was called Briant and may

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They started work at 6:30 AM and started work at 8 AM in winter and only had two breaks in their day.

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Some of the earnt 8s or 9s a week in the same firm

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They were undersized because underfed, oppressed because helpless, flung aside as soon as worked out`. Still worse, their working conditions were dangerous. The fumes from the phosphorous used to make matches were poisonous. Workers could get necrosis or`phossy jaw`, a forme of bone cancer.

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They got phossy jaw from painting phosphorous on to matchsticks

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They worked in terrible conditions or if they were sick because they were desperate

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They worked long hours for low wages

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The strike ended in 1901

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A strike for the matchstick girl would of lasted for 3 weeks

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they needed money because they were desperate

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The leader of the match girls was Sarah Chapman.

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They worked at the factory at 14 to 20 years old

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The 'Match Girls' worked long hours for very low wages, and could lose part of their wages in fines for such offences as arriving late or talking or even going to the toilet

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There were workers as young as six years old

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They started work at fourteen years old!

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They worked in hot, cramped conditions

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They were 13-20.

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they were only getting paid four shillings a week also they had week quality work

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Started at 6 am ended at 6pm (14 hours)

But in winter they started at 8am

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The matchstick girls worked between the age of 14 and 18.

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The strike lasted 3 weeks.

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They had to work 14 hours a day :Lawson and Darcie

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John Walker accidently invented the matches

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They worked 14 hours a day

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They worked in terrible conditions

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'Phossy jaw' was a type of bone cancer

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They got paid 4 shillings a week. But if they had a good week they would get paid 8 or 9 shillings!-Thea and Lucie J

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The strike ended on the 21st July.

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most of them were slaves to people

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They went on strike in 1888

gwen and maizie

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They only got 4 shillings a week which is equivalent to 20p in todays money.

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They usually got necrosis (also known as 'phossy jaw' which is a type of bone cancer which eats away at the bone.

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Most of them had phossy jaw caused by phosphorus-Dylan E