2010.54.1060

Capitalism also Depends on Domestic Labour
1975
20 in HIGH x 30 in WIDE
(50.80 cm HIGH x 76.20 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.1060

Lower right corner has: "See Red Womens Workshop / 16A Iliffe Yard / Off Crampton Street / London, S.E.17 Tel. 701 8314".

At top the poster has a stylized image of a factory building in maroon, with the white silhouettes of large gears, a forklift, and a crane in white. At either end of the factory building there is an opening. The right opening has a line of human figures emerging from it down to the bottom of the poster where they meet a conveyor belt. At the conveyor belt one of the figures is seated being caressed by a woman in a checkered dress, there is a sign hanging from the conveyor belt that reads: "Home / Sweet / Home". A little to the left on the conveyor belt the woman in the checkered dress is serving something to the figure seated in a large chair on the conveyor belt. To the left of this the woman is ironing a shirt on the conveyor belt. To the left of this at the end of the conveyor belt the male figure is seated as the woman puts a bottle in his backpack as he is about to join the line of figures entering the factory at the opening on its left side. The center of the poster has the text: "Capitalism Also / Depends On / Domestic / Labour". Verso has in pen:"Abrams, for Amelia".

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