Is Netflix’s ‘Enola Holmes 2’ Based on a True Story?

According to Screen Rant, the factory covered up the conditions by “ordering the forced removal of a girl’s tooth as soon as she reported an ache.” If one refused, she was fired. It was as simple as that.

After interviewing a handful of matchstick workers, British activist Annie Besant published a shocking exposé titled “White Slavery in London” in the newspaper The Link. When the company pushed the workers to deny the vile (but true) allegations, they refused. After several firings, the girls went on strike.