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9-30 August1987:21 days that rocked the chamber: Forward with the struggle of a living wage.

Theme: Trade Unions


Call Number: 0060
Identifier: AL2446_0060
Title: 9-30 August1987:21 days that rocked the chamber: Forward with the struggle of a living wage.
Date: 1987
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Congress of South African Trade Unions - COSATU;
Hlanganani Basebenzi;
Labour;
Wages;
labour unions;
wages
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black and yellow, issued by COSATU and produced for NUM, Johannesburg.This poster depicts NUM celebrating the end of the national miners' strike. The text reads: "9-30 AUGUST 1987 : 21 DAYS THAT ROCKED : THE CHAMBER : FORWARD WTIH THE STRUGGLE : FOR A LIVING WAGE".Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 57 (number 94) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 167 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007, as well as the SAHA virtual exhibition - 'Hlanganani Basebenzi: Commemorating South Africa's Labour Movement'. Duplicate of AL2446_2649.
Creator: Issued by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
Type: poster
Format: preservation image/tiff
access image/jpeg
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: User restrictions may apply . See SAHA copyright statement.
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