Causes and Consequences of American Minimum Wage Legislation, 1911–1947

Although in the last two decades there have been literally hundreds of studies of postwar minimum wage legislation, there have been but a handful of studies of the first federal minimum wage, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), and no studies of the state laws that preceded it. 1 My dissertation attempts to bridge this gap by examining the political economy and effects of early American minimum wage legislation

Economics · Labour economics · Legislation · Minimum wage · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Wage · Labor Movements and Unions · Law

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• Old South, New South

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