Tag Archive | labor

Featured labor-related item: Trade Union Law Pamphlet

In conjunction with the exhibition, “For Liberty, Justice, and Equality: Unions Making History in America,” we will be featuring labor-related materials from the Prange Collection. A list of posts in this series can be found here.  The efforts by GHQ/SCAP to educate the Japanese on the role of labor unions in a democratic society took many forms.  […]

Featured labor-related material – wall newspapers

In conjunction with the exhibition, “For Liberty, Justice, and Equality: Unions Making History in America,” we will be featuring labor-related materials from the Prange Collection. The exhibit, which draws upon materials from the labor collections in Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Maryland, will be on display in the Maryland Room Gallery on the […]

May Day!

In conjunction with the exhibition, “For Liberty, Justice, and Equality: Unions Making History in America,” we will be featuring labor-related materials from the Prange Collection. The exhibit, which draws upon materials from the labor collections in Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Maryland, will be on display in the Maryland Room Gallery on the […]

Featured labor-related item: “Fujin mondai ni tsuite”

In conjunction with the exhibition, “For Liberty, Justice, and Equality: Unions Making History in America,” we will be featuring labor-related materials from the Prange Collection. The exhibit, which draws upon materials from the labor collections in Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Maryland, will be on display in the Maryland Room Gallery on the […]

Featured labor-related item: “Rodo kyoyaku to dantai kosho”

In conjunction with the exhibition, “For Liberty, Justice, and Equality: Unions Making History in America,” we will be featuring labor-related materials from the Prange Collection. The exhibit, which draws upon materials from the labor collections in Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Maryland, will be on display in the Maryland Room Gallery […]

Featured labor-related material – “Labor”

In conjunction with the exhibition, “For Liberty, Justice, and Equality: Unions Making History in America,” we will be featuring labor-related materials from the Prange Collection.  The exhibit, which draws upon materials from the labor collections of Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Maryland, will be on display in the Maryland Room Gallery […]

An exhibition at the Hornbake Library: “For Liberty, Justice, and Equality: Unions Making History in America”

The labor study collection at the Special Collections and the University Archives, University of Maryland Libraries, currently presents an exhibition at the Maryland Room Gallery in the Hornbake Library North, University of Maryland.  The exhibition, “For Liberty, Justice, and Equality: Unions Making History in America,” will be available for public between September 2017 through July […]

National Safety Week (July 1-7)

National Safety Week in Japan is observed from July 1 through July 7.  According to the website of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, this year marks the 90th National Safety Week. Two wall newspapers in the Prange Collection celebrate National Safety Week. The first, “Anzen Eisei Kabe Shimbun,” was issued in June 1948 […]

Fall Open House 2015

On Thursday, October 22, the Prange Collection and the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive, both housed in Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Maryland, co-sponsored an open house.   Following a short program, the guests were invited to view labor-related materials from both collections. Also see posts about the Prange Collection Open […]

Labor Studies Symposium and Labor-related materials in the Prange Collection

On March 5, the Center for the History of the New America at the University of Maryland will host a symposium entitled, “Organizing for Power and Workers’ Rights in the 21st Century.”  Symposium participants will be invited to visit Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at the University of Maryland to tour the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO […]