Craig Oldham poster "May they never be deemed 'low skilled' again"
- Made:
- 2020
- maker:
- Oldham, Craig
Typographic poster, approximately 1 sheet size.
Designed by Manchester-based Craig Oldham, this poster design is based on an earlier, larger work for media agency Jack Arts. The artist updated the poster content to include different occupations to those in the earlier design. The poster was sold to raise money for Eat Well MCR, a collective providing meals to vulnerable people in Greater Manchester.
The typographic design features job titles of roles that earn below £25,000 or of professional roles where the starting salary for an entry level position is below that threshold. In February 2020, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced a points-based immigration scheme for the UK to come into effect on 1st January 2021. This scheme was aimed at reducing ‘unskilled’ and ‘low skilled’ immigration to the UK. One of the ways it defined low skilled jobs was as earning below £25,600. In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic made itself fully felt in the UK and many of the people doing those same jobs were defined as ‘key workers’. This poster design was responding to this, highlighting the importance of NHS workers and other ‘key’ or ‘essential’ workers in the response to the pandemic and criticising the government's hypocrisy over their valuing of the named roles.
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- Extent:
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- Identifier:
- 2021-1279
- Access:
- Open access.
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