Historical place archive

Dagenham in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Dagenham in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

4 records2 event labels3 people1978–1983

Historical events in Dagenham

1978

1978
Pay Policy
Ford Workers · Trade Unions

Strike action challenges the government's five percent pay limit.

9 October 1978
Pay Policy
Ford Motor Company · Trade Unions

Agrees to negotiate despite the government's wage restraint policy.

November 1978
Pay Policy
Ford Workers · Trade Unions

Accept a seventeen percent settlement that breaks the pay guideline.

1983

9 June 1983
Member of Parliament
Bryan Gould · Labour Party

Elected Member of Parliament for Dagenham

Provenance

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