1 The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: report of an Inquiry by Sir William Macpherson of Cluny (M4262–1/2) (London, The Stationery Office, 1999).
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2 Michael Menson died in February 1997 after having been set alight by a racist gang. Ricky Reel was found dead in the river Thames, hours after a racist attack on him and a group of friends in October 1997. Akofa Hodasi was found hanged from a tree three days after a racial attack in which a friend was stabbed, in April 1998. Harold McGowan (July 1999) and his nephew Jason (December 1999) were both found hanged in highly suspicious circumstances. Police initially treated both deaths as suicides, refusing to consider allegations of racism.
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1 Young, Kaminska and Thomas, ‘Unwanted Journey: why Central European Roma are fleeing to the UK’ (London, Refugee Council, March 1999).
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2 Many Slovak Roma were recruited to work in the Czech industrial lands left empty after the post-war expulsion of the Sudeten Germans. The Badzo family, for instance, worked and had their younger children in the Czech town of Kladno before returning to Michalovce. The vast majority of the 1997 Roma exodus to Britain came from these two linked towns from the western and eastern borders of former Czechoslovakia.
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1 Cited in J. L. Hammond and Barbara Hammond, The Rise of Modern Industry (London, Methuen, 1947).
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2 Quoted in E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London, Gollancz, 1963).
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3 Quoted in Mark Prendergast, For God, Country and Coca Cola (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993).
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4 In A. Meiklejohn (ed.), The Effects of Arts, Trades and Professions on Health and Longevity, 1832-1832 (1957).
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5 Second Report of the Children’s Employment Commission, 1843, p. 136-136.
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6 Cited by F. Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (Harmonds-worth, Penguin), pp. 158–159.
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7 Children’s Employment Commission, op. cit.
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8 Author’s interview with Jehanara Begum, Dhaka, May 1999.
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9 Thompson, op. cit., pp. 373–4.
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10 Author’s interview with Helen Rahman, of Shoishob, February 1999.
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11 Therese Blanchet, Lost Innocence, Stolen Childhoods (Dhaka, University Press, 1996).
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12 B. Seebohm Rowntree and May Kendall, How the Labourer Lives (London, Thomas Nelson, 1913).
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13 Thompson, op. cit.
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14 P. Gaskell, The Manufacturing Population of England, 1933, cited in Thompson, op. cit.
