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                <text>The Button Project is an online exhibition by the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources Library that will explore labour history through pinback buttons. We will focus on Canadian examples in order to examine protests, boycotts, unions, and movements through material culture.</text>
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              <text>A Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) button intended for International Women’s Day on March 8, although it is not clear what year. Shows support for the participation of women in unions.</text>
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              <text>A light blue pinback button with the phrase "a woman's place is in the struggle" in the middle, encircled by illustrated figures of women holding hands. Encircling the figures are the words: 'CUPW International Women's Day - March 8th'. In the crease: "Mutual/Hadwen Imaging Technologies Inc." - an unclear union label - "(613) 736-1380 Recycled paper".</text>
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