After the war, civil unrest broke out across the country in major cities as unions fought to establish basic rights such as a forty- hour week for a now over-populated work force. The towering black square of the dockyard warehouse in Southwark with the backdrop of a stormy sky, emphasises the protesting workers’ threat to the status quo.

Black, Jonathan. CRW Nevinson – The Complete Prints. London: Lund Humphries in association with Osborne Samuel, 2014. cat. no. 59.