Anti-Import Protest Button
notes: label: Description
content: Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the declining U.S. steel industry sought increased tariffs to protect American steel from foreign imports. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan refused to impose new trade barriers. In 2001, Bethlehem Steel, the country’s second largest steel producer went bankrupt. The curator picked up this button from the floor of the shuttered plant.
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0029.01
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0029.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0029
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 1 15/16 in; .3175 cm x 4.92125 cm