Fight Redundancies in the Workplace
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1976
This political protest poster, titled "Fight Redundancies in the Workplace", was designed by The Poster Collective in the United Kingdom around 1976. Printed via screenprint using red ink on yellow paper, the poster measures 75.9 cm in height and 51 cm in width. It promotes worker solidarity and protests against rising unemployment and job losses.
The visual layout features three main tiers. The upper section depicts the heads and shoulders of protesting figures beneath the prominent headline "FIGHT REDUNDANCIES IN THE WORKPLACE". The central tier presents three smaller images of protest placards reading "PLESSEY WORKERS DEMAND THE RIGHT TO WORK", "NO CLOSURES OR CONTRACTIONS OF U C.S", and "DOCK WORKERS SUPPORT BRIANT COLOUR WORKMEN". The lower portion prints an extended quotation attributed to a UCS worker from 1971 detailing the anger over cumulative redundancies and mass unemployment, urging workers to take action in yards and factories rather than accepting that economics control people.
Evidence at a glance
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Historical context
The poster was produced in the United Kingdom around 1976 as a protest against rising unemployment. Its central message incorporates a statement dating to 1971 from a UCS worker expressing resistance against workplace redundancies and economic paralysis.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Screenprint in red on yellow
- Dimensions
- Height: 75.9 cm; Width: 51 cm
Technical characteristics
- Inscriptions
- Date: Text: Research required; Latest: Research required; Earliest: Research required; Note: Research required; Type: Research required; Medium: Research required; Method: Research required; Script: Research required; Content: FIGHT REDUNDANCIE/ IN/ THE/ WORK PLACE; Language: Research required; Position: Research required; Inscriber: Name: Id: Research required; Text: Research required; Association: Id: Research required; Text: Research required; Description: Research required; Translation: Research required; Interpretation: Research required; Transliteration: Research required Date: Text: Research required; Latest: Research required; Earliest: Research required; Note: Research required; Type: Research required; Medium: Research required; Method: Research required; Script: Research required; Content: PLESSEY/ WORKERS/ DEMAND THE/ RIGHT TO/ WORK; Language: Research required; Position: Research required; Inscriber: Name: Id: Research required; Text: Research required; Association: Id: Research required; Text: Research required; Description: Research required; Translation: Research required; Interpretation: Research required; Transliteration: Research required Date: Text: Research required; Latest: Research required; Earliest: Research required; Note: Research required; Type: Research required; Medium: Research required; Method: Research required; Script: Research required; Content: NO/ CLOSURES/ OR/ CONTRACTIONS/ OF UC.S; Language: Research required; Position: Research required; Inscriber: Name: Id: Research required; Text: Research required; Association: Id: Research required; Text: Research required; Description: Research required; Translation: Research required; Interpretation: Research required; Transliteration: Research required Date: Text: Research required; Latest: Research required; Earliest: Research required; Note: Research required; Type: Research required; Medium: Research required; Method: Research required; Script: Research required; Content: DOCK WORKERS/ SUPPORT/ BRIANT COLOUR/ WORKMEN; Language: Research required; Position: Research required; Inscriber: Name: Id: Research required; Text: Research required; Association: Id: Research required; Text: Research required; Description: Research required; Translation: Research required; Interpretation: Research required; Transliteration: Research required Date: Text: Research required; Latest: Research required; Earliest: Research required; Note: Research required; Type: Research required; Medium: Research required; Method: Research required; Script: Research required; Content: We're aware of the pent up anger and frustration/ of countless redundancies after redundancies,/ the crippling paralysis of small redundancies,/ here and there with the cumulative effect of/ mass unemployment. We're not going to be/ hungy we'll fight when we're in the yards and in/ the factories, and not when we're in the dole/ queues... we refuse to accept a philosophy that/ says that economics control men, men must/ and shall control economics.../ UCS Worker 1971; Language: Research required; Position: Research required; Inscriber: Name: Id: Research required; Text: Research required; Association: Id: Research required; Text: Research required; Description: Research required; Translation: Research required; Interpretation: Research required; Transliteration: Research required
- Maker recorded
- The Poster Collective
- Place recorded
- United Kingdom
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection record for this single object; how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Museum object name
- Fight Redundancies in the Workplace
- Museum object number
- E.652-2004
Catalogue references
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