Sharifa Khalifa worked at the Courtaulds textile factory when they were based on Marlborough Rd, Nuneaton, she was in the winding department. She features (with colour photo) on pg 15 of ‘Working Lives: Memories of Work & Industry in Nuneaton & Bedworth: A 20th Century Oral History’ by Alison Clague, Marie Ingoldby, Louise Essex & Lesley Kirkwood for Warwickshire County Council/Warwickshire Publications (2008). Other Asian voices in the book included Farida Sheikh (p12, 21 & p56), Zainub Kapadia (p22), both of whom worked for Abbey Hosiery in Leicestershire (as outworkers). A group photograph of the Union Wool & Leather Company (p27) features many Asian men & women. Kokab Jahan Choudury features on pg 55. she was from Kenya (arrived in the UK in 1971). She worked at Abbey Hosiery in Nuneaton.
No references to African-Caribbean workers but still a recommended read.
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Angela Allison, Coventry UK
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