Jolting memory: Nightcleaners recalled - Sheila Rowbotham

Frames from Nightcleaners

Frames from Nightcleaners

Sheila Rowbotham recalls both the campaigns to organise female night cleaners in London from 1970, and the 1975 film by Marc Karlin about the same.

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