A milestone in labour struggles and women’s liberation, a 1968 strike by machinists at Ford Dagenham, is to be turned into a film. The strike fed into the National Joint Action Campaign for Women’s Equal Rights, and resulted in a series of similar struggles across British industry, driving up womens’ representation in trade unions. It also forced the Labour government to launch an investigation into Ford’s practises by employment secretary Jack Scamp, ultimately resulting in the Equal Pay Act of 1970, one of the signal successes of British feminism. For all that the legislation failed to eradicate the yawning pay gap between male and female workers, it did provide the legal basis for a series of struggles that improved the situation of women. This should be a welcome addition to the spate of British films about working class struggle ‘back then’, from Brassed Off to the Full Monty - great as these films are, there’s usually an antiquarian feel about them, as if class struggle is a sort of museum piece rather than an enduring reality…