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The ovals were workers of the silk whose job was to apply pre-treatments over raw silk to leave the spinning to make it suitable for weaving (the oval is the centerpiece of the mill they were monitoring). This activity is also called throwing.
At Lyon , during the summer of 1869, 2000 workers "oval" went on strike to demand increased wages and reduced working time.
The strike lasted two months, marked the awakening of the feminine world politics and the labor movement.
Bibliography
Strike the ovals. Lyon, June-July 1869, Claire Auzias, 1982, Payot
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