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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