The wages of workers are a primary determinant of a worker's standard of living. There has been a long history of governmental action attempting to construct a fair and equitable method of ensuring a living wage to the worker. This book traces the historical developmental process, examining the theory behind minimum wage programs and the first 50 years of the operation of the American Fair Labor Standards Act. Here are gathered key data and information that explain the effects of the FLSA on the worker and the employer.
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WILLIS J. NORDLUND is Dean, School of Business at the College of West Virginia.
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Minimum wage programs emerged in the United States because sweating was a prevalent condition and the plight of low-wage workers, especially women and children, required attention. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York Times, Department of Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Puerto Rico, George Meany, Rules Committee, Great Depression, American Federation of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, President Roosevelt, Senator Kennedy, Washington Post, District of Columbia, Chamber of Commerce, Equal Pay Act, Secretary Perkins, Economic Report of the President, Secretary Wirtz, Women's Bureau, American Samoa, New Deal, President Carter, President Truman, Senator Hatch, Employment Standards Administration New!
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Minimum wage programs emerged in the United States because sweating was a prevalent condition and the plight of low-wage workers, especially women and children, required attention. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York Times, Department of Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Puerto Rico, George Meany, Rules Committee, Great Depression, American Federation of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, President Roosevelt, Senator Kennedy, Washington Post, District of Columbia, Chamber of Commerce, Equal Pay Act, Secretary Perkins, Economic Report of the President, Secretary Wirtz, Women's Bureau, American Samoa, New Deal, President Carter, President Truman, Senator Hatch, Employment Standards Administration New!
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- The Fair Labor Standards Act by Ellen C. Kearns on 9 pages
- Annual Report 2004 by Social Science Research Unit on page 121, and page 122
- Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood on page 56, and Back Matter
- Labor and the Employer (Essay Index Reprint Series) by Samuel Gompers on page 56, and Back Matter
- A history of the American worker by Richard B. Morris on page 10, and Back Matter
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- Economic Liberalization and Labor Markets (Contributions in Labor Studies) by Parviz Dabir-Alai in Front Matter
- The Matriarchs of England's Cooperative Movement: A Study in Gender Politics and Female Leadership, 1883-1921 (Contributions in Labor Studies) by Barbara J. Blaszak in Front Matter
- A Broad and Ennobling Spirit: Workers and Their Unions in Late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886-1898 (Contributions in Labor Studies) by Ronald Mendel in Front Matter
- Marketing Masculinities: Gender and Management Politics in Marketing Work (Contributions in Labor Studies) by Lee V. Chalmers in Front Matter
- Construction Workers, U.S.A.: (Contributions in Labor Studies) by Herbert Applebaum in Front Matter
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