Woman Labour And Solıdarıty In Cınema: Made In Dagenham

The most important factor that shapes the women’s home and work life is the patriarchal social structure. In that structure which based male domination, women are limited to domestic because of their gender, but men have a say in the public sphere. That women have become in working life caused they operated in a gender-specific jobs and exposure discriminated. Because that women are described as a gender which responsible for home affairs causes devaluation of their labor in working life and be seen in a status inferior to men. Because of this, women have been participated in social movements to obtain the rights in the patriarchal structure from 1960s. The film of “Made in Dagenham” is about a strike which was started with the slogan of “equal pay for equal work” by 187 women worker of Ford factory in England, in 1968. This film represents the women's movement in 1960s. In this study, the film that an example of women’s working lives is analysis with semiotic method.

Keywords

Patriarchal, working life, discrimination, women labor, Made in Dagenham