Editing Polaroid Corporation (section)

==Controversy==
In 1970, [[Caroline Hunter]] and her co-worker, future husband Ken Williams, discovered the involvement of their employer, Polaroid, in the South African [[apartheid]] system as the producer of the [[Pass_law|passbook]] photos used to identify Black individuals in [[South Africa]]. To pressure Polaroid to [[Disinvestment from South Africa|divest from South Africa]], Hunter and Williams created the Polaroid Revolutionary Worker Movement (PRWM).<ref name="Polaroid">{{cite journal |last1=Morgan |first1=Eric |date=29 February 2008 |title=The World is Watching: Polaroid and South Africa |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1096882 |journal=Enterprise & Society |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=520–549 |doi=10.1093/es/khl002 |ssrn=1096882 |access-date=7 February 2021 |archive-date=31 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331014600/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1096882 |url-status=live }}</ref> Through the PRWM, Hunter and Williams organized a boycott against the corporation.<ref name="Alchemy">{{cite book |last1=Ramirez |first1=Ainissa | author-link= Ainissa Ramirez|title=The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another |date=2020 |publisher=The MIT Press | isbn= 978-0262043809 }}</ref> Consequently, Polaroid banned all sales to the government, including the military and police, and promised to raise wages and increase job training at its distributors. The plan did not pacify the PRWM, however, and, in 1971, Hunter testified before the United Nations advocating a boycott of Polaroid products. Polaroid proceeded to fire both Hunter and Williams. As a result of protests, a community group in Boston donated $10,000 it received from Polaroid to South African liberation movements. In 1977, it became public Polaroid film was being sold by the distributor Frank and Hirsch to the [[South Africa]]n government for use in the "passbook" in violation of Polaroid's policy. This ended Polaroid's relationship with its distributor and all direct sales to South Africa.<ref>{{cite web | title=When Polaroid Workers Fought Apartheid | website=Dissent Magazine | date=August 17, 2020 | url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/when-polaroid-workers-fought-apartheid | access-date=February 7, 2021 | archive-date=February 3, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203054048/https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/when-polaroid-workers-fought-apartheid | url-status=live }}</ref>