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Jessie Eden (née Shrimpton; 24 February 1902 – 27 September 1986) was a British trade union leader and communist activist, most famous for leading between 40,000 to 50,000 households during the Birmingham rent-strike of 1939. She was also involved in the construction of the Soviet Union's Moscow Metro, convincing women at Birmingham's Joseph Lucas motor factory to join the 1926 UK General Strike, and leading an unprecedented and successful strike of 10,000 factory worker women in 1931. For her commitment to helping improve the working conditions of English factory workers, she was awarded the T&G gold medal from Ernest Bevin. Later in life, she served for three decades as Birmingham city's federation of council house tenants. Her involvement in the trade unions of the English Midlands led
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| dbo:abstract | Jessie Eden (née Shrimpton; 24 February 1902 – 27 September 1986) was a British trade union leader and communist activist, most famous for leading between 40,000 to 50,000 households during the Birmingham rent-strike of 1939. She was also involved in the construction of the Soviet Union's Moscow Metro, convincing women at Birmingham's Joseph Lucas motor factory to join the 1926 UK General Strike, and leading an unprecedented and successful strike of 10,000 factory worker women in 1931. For her commitment to helping improve the working conditions of English factory workers, she was awarded the T&G gold medal from Ernest Bevin. Later in life, she served for three decades as Birmingham city's federation of council house tenants. Her involvement in the trade unions of the English Midlands led to a massive increase in women joining British trade unions. She was a lifelong supporter of both the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G), and of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) of which she was a leading member. In popular culture, she is best known for her depiction in the fictional British television series Peaky Blinders (played by Charlie Murphy), causing both controversies over how her personal life was portrayed and a renewed interest in British trade union history. (en) |
| dbo:alias | Jessie McCulloch (1948–1986) (en) Jessie Shrimpton (1902–1923) (en) |
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| dbo:deathDate | 1986-09-27 (xsd:date) |
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| dbo:deathYear | 1986-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
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| dbp:birthName | Jessie Shrimpton (en) |
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| dbp:caption | Jessie Eden photographed in 1976 (en) |
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| dbp:deathPlace | Birmingham, England (en) |
| dbp:honours | T&G – Gold Medal (en) |
| dbp:knownFor | Communist activist, trade union leader, rent strike leader (en) |
| dbp:name | Jessie Eden (en) |
| dbp:occupation | Trade union shop steward, factory worker. (en) |
| dbp:organisation | Transport and General Workers' Union T&G / TGWU (en) |
| dbp:otherNames | Jessie McCulloch (en) Jessie Shrimpton (en) |
| dbp:parents | William (en) Jessie (en) |
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| dbp:source | Birmingham Post 1976, as published in The Guardian (en) |
| dbp:spouse | 1923 (xsd:integer) 1948 (xsd:integer) 1978 (xsd:integer) (en) Albert Eden (en) Walter McCulloch (en) |
| dbp:text | "One policeman put his hands on my arms. They were telling me to go home, but the crowd howled … ’Hey, leave her alone’… and some men came and pushed the policemen away. They didn't do anything after that. I think they could see there would have been a riot. I was never frightened of the police or the troops because I had the people with me, you see." (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Jessie Eden (née Shrimpton; 24 February 1902 – 27 September 1986) was a British trade union leader and communist activist, most famous for leading between 40,000 to 50,000 households during the Birmingham rent-strike of 1939. She was also involved in the construction of the Soviet Union's Moscow Metro, convincing women at Birmingham's Joseph Lucas motor factory to join the 1926 UK General Strike, and leading an unprecedented and successful strike of 10,000 factory worker women in 1931. For her commitment to helping improve the working conditions of English factory workers, she was awarded the T&G gold medal from Ernest Bevin. Later in life, she served for three decades as Birmingham city's federation of council house tenants. Her involvement in the trade unions of the English Midlands led (en) |
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