MERCI AUX GARDIENS DE LA PAIX !
Poster
1973 (made)
1973 (made)
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| Place of origin |
LIP is a French watch and clock company, based in Besançon in eastern France. In the mid 1970s they were at the centre of a high profile strike around worker's rights in which the factory was occupied by protesting workers who eventually took over the management of the business. It was described as 'the social conflict of the 1970s' by the French newspaper Libération.
Object details
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| Title | MERCI AUX GARDIENS DE LA PAIX ! (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | Small poster printed by the Imprimerie Spéciale du parti Communiste, in the style of the Atelier Populaire, signed IMP. SPEC. France, 1973. |
| Physical description | Screen print poster depicting a figure in a helmet with a LIP watch between his teeth, lettered 'MERCI AUX GARDIENS DE LA PAIX ! Solidarité avec les travailleurs de Lip à Paris.'. |
| Credit line | Given by Martin Bailey |
| Summary | LIP is a French watch and clock company, based in Besançon in eastern France. In the mid 1970s they were at the centre of a high profile strike around worker's rights in which the factory was occupied by protesting workers who eventually took over the management of the business. It was described as 'the social conflict of the 1970s' by the French newspaper Libération. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.355-2021 |
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| Record created | September 23, 2021 |
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