Workers who manufactured these products often had disfigured faces as a result of "phossy jaw."
The composition of these items was regulated by the 1906 Berne Convention. After visiting the Great Exhibition, the Lundström brothers began manufacturing these items in Sweden. John Walker sold these items in packages labeled "Congreve" as a tribute to an earlier inventor of rockets. The Salvation Army opened a factory for these items to take advantage of the negative press surrounding a chief producer of them, Bryant and May. Annie Besant spread awareness of a strike of young women making these items in 1888, which led to the widespread substitution of a "white" chemical critical to their function with a similar, less harmful "red" form. Workers who manufactured these products often had disfigured faces as a result of "phossy jaw." For 10 points, name these items once called "lucifers," whose phosphorus-containing heads can ignite.
The composition of these items was regulated by the 1906 Berne Convention.
matches [or matchsticks] &lt;European History post-600&gt;