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Defend Workers' Rights to Organise

Poster
1977 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Poster depicting a strike, headlined 'Defend Workers Right to Organise,' advertising the benefits of striking for workers. Jayaben Desai is pictured on the right. She led a walkout on 23rd August 1976 of striking workers at the Grunwick film processing plant in Chapter Road, Willesden. Lettered with the name and address of the trade and labour hall in Willesden, information on the 24 hour picket, images of local workers with placards supporting the strike, and four images of 'the enemy behind' (Gorst, Sir Robert Thompson, Brian Crozier and Robert Moss of the employers association N.A.F.F). These four men are labelled on the poster as 'the champions of sweat-shop bosses, presently advising and representing Grunwicks'.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDefend Workers' Rights to Organise (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Screenprinted poster
Brief description
Poster depicting a strike, headlined 'Defend Workers' Right to Organise,' advertising the benefits of striking for workers, made by the Poster Film Collective, in collaboration with the Grunwick Strike Committee, 1977.
Physical description
Poster depicting a strike, headlined 'Defend Workers Right to Organise,' advertising the benefits of striking for workers. Jayaben Desai is pictured on the right. She led a walkout on 23rd August 1976 of striking workers at the Grunwick film processing plant in Chapter Road, Willesden. Lettered with the name and address of the trade and labour hall in Willesden, information on the 24 hour picket, images of local workers with placards supporting the strike, and four images of 'the enemy behind' (Gorst, Sir Robert Thompson, Brian Crozier and Robert Moss of the employers association N.A.F.F). These four men are labelled on the poster as 'the champions of sweat-shop bosses, presently advising and representing Grunwicks'.
Credit line
Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop
Object history
Poster featured in the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is easy...?'
Subject depicted
Association
Bibliographic reference
From the exhibition by the Greenwich Mural Workshop 'Printing is Easy...?', 1986
Collection
Accession number
E.568-2013

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Record createdNovember 20, 2013
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