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Slave Labour (mural)

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Slave Labour is a mural stencilled by the British street artist Banksy in May 2012 on the side wall of a Poundland store in Wood Green, London, measuring about 122 by 152 centimetres. It depicts a young child crouched at a sewing machine assembling a bunting of Union Jack patches, created as a protest against the use of sweatshop labour to manufacture Diamond Jubilee and London Olympics memorabilia that year. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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2012 1
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1. Slave Labour (mural) (Wikipedia)
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    on the side wall of a Poundland store in Wood Green, London in May 2012.
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    Slave Labour is a mural stencilled by the British street artist Banksy in May 2012 on the side wall of a Poundland store in Wood Green, London, measuring about 122 by 152 centimetres.
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