[Labor booklets on miscellaneous labor and trade union issues : in the Department of Special Collections, University of Florida Libraries]. 1908-1961.

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[Labor booklets on miscellaneous labor and trade union issues : in the Department of Special Collections, University of Florida Libraries]. 1908-1961.

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Booklets forming part of the Labor Booklets Collection, compiled by Margaret Dreier Robins, a participant in the American labor movement in the early to mid-twentieth century. The Collection, formerly located in the University of Florida library at Chinsegut Hill, consists of approximately 1,350 items on contemporary labor issues in the United States, and is now available with finding guide in the Department of Special Collections, University of Florida Libraries.

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