IBM: SPEAK UP!

A workers newsletter of INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION and SOLIDARITY

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Creator

IBM Workers United

Place Created

Johnson City, New York, United States

Date

Undated, Fall 1979?

Type of Item

Newsletter

Length/duration

2 pages

Description

The newsletter reports that IBM is one of the largest U.S. corporations doing business in South Africa, where it has a work force of 1,478, sales of $163 million, and assets of $89 million. The newsletter says IBM sells computers and systems to business and government for any purpose. It reports that IBM computers are used by leading South African companies such as the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Chamber of Mines, Anglo-American Corp., and African Explosive and Chemical Industries. At least one-third of IBM's business there is with the government, including the use of an IBM computer by the Department of Prisons and two IBM 378/158 systems used in the population registration system known as...

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Organization

IBM Workers United

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

This item was digitized by the Amistad Research Center, which made it available to the African Activist Archive. See: http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/

Rights Management

Used by permission of Alliance@IBM (successor to IBM Workers United).

Collection

American Committee on Africa collection, Amistad Research Center