You're Doing a Fine Job... Carry On Canal Workers
A painted view from above shows a woman in a patterned dress at the stern of a loaded narrowboat on a canal, under the praise 'You're doing a fine job' and the instruction 'Carry on canal workers'. The appeal is addressed to a named ordinary trade and shown through a family boat worker, the plain-folks tell, and it pairs praise with an instruction to continue.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- H.M. Stationery Office (British government); printer Multi Machine Plates Ltd.
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
H.M. Stationery Office, c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
You're doing a fine job... CARRY ON canal workers PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY MULTI MACHINE PLATES LTD. LONDON E.C.4. 51-4358.
