(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

My father, a union man to the end, died from asbestosis. Throughout my career I have often incorporated textiles within my work. Working conditions that lead to industrial diseases within the textile industry, especially in India, are a time bomb waiting to explode.
      Different components within my piece have different meanings related to industrial disease. The medal has elements of and is based on a nurse's watch. It is dedicated to all those who died from an industrial disease, to those who have fought for better working conditions, those that still continue to fight and to the nurses who have cared for those dying from industrial diseases.
      The thread and the imprint of the fair trade cotton on the piece represent the bad working conditions of the textile industry in India. The cogs and the fixing pin represent the time bomb waiting to go off on an industrial disease. The alchemy process of the build up of thread, the gold vac coating and the hardening of the textiles on the medal represent the build up of the fibres on the wall of the stomach and lungs which cause asbestosis.
      I would like to thank MMU engineering department for help with development of turning the textile part and mixed materials into gold.