 Jayaben Desai

Jayaben Desai (2 April 1933 – 23 December 2010) was a prominent leader of the strikers in the Grunwick dispute in London in 1976.Born in Gujarat, India, Desai moved to Tanzania, East Africa, in 1956, and later migrated to Britain, where she took up low-paid work, first as a sewing machinist, then processing film in the Grunwick factory.