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WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! : MAY DAY IS OURS : COSATU LIVING WAGE CAMPAIGN

Theme: Labour: An injury to one is an injury to all!


Call Number: 1251
Identifier: AL2446_1251
Title: WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! : MAY DAY IS OURS : COSATU LIVING WAGE CAMPAIGN
Date: 1989
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Congress of South African Trade Unions;
May Day;
Living Wage Campaign
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black, red and yellow, designed by Gardens Media Group (Cape Town) and produced by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Johannesburg. This image depicts how the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) celebrated May Day and popularized the federation’s Living Wage Campaign. The text reads “WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! : MAY DAY IS OURS : COSATU LIVING WAGE CAMPAIGN” Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 67 (number 120) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition.
Creator: Gardens Media Group (COSATU)
Type: Poster
Format: Access image - jpg
Preservation image - tiff
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: Copyright of some material is held by individual poster makers/organisations. Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for more information
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