Civilizing Capitalism
Subtitle: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era (Gender and American Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: March 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780807825273
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Central government policies; Economic history; Equal opportunities; Social history; Women's studies; Work & labour; Working-women's clubs; United States - 20th Century/Depression; National Consumers' League; Women social reformers; Employment Of Women; Social Movements; Politics / Current Events; United States - 20th Century; History: American; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Women's Studies - History; Social Science / Women's Studies; Women's Studies - General; Women; Biography; Employment; History; United States; National Consumers' League; voluntary association; labor standards; New Deal; consumer activism; protective labor legislation; Equal Rights Amendment; minimum wage; maximum hours; night work; U.S. labor legislation; Southern U.S.; Georgia; Kentucky; Virginia; South Carolina; National Recovery Adminitration; Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; National Labor Relations Act; maternalism; feminism; women reformers; social democracy; administrative state; regulatory state; textile industry; sweatshops; industry migration; wage-hour law; U.S. Division of Labor Standards; Florence Kelley; Josephine Casey; National Women's Party; Southern Council for Women and Children in Industry; Women's Trade Union League; Consumers' League; sex-based legislation; ethical consumption; left-liberalism; social Keynesianism; southern conservatism; federalism; Frances Perkins; Clara Beyer; Mary W. Dewson; Elinore Morehouse Herrick; Josephine Roche; Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush; Eveline Burns; Elizabeth Magee; Margaret Wiesman; Anna Hubbuch Settle; Annie Ainslie Halleck; Ida Weis Friend; Elizabeth Wisner; Mary E. Frayser; Sidney Hillman; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; International Ladies Garment Workers; League of Women Shoppers
First sentence: Florence Kelley's father reportedly told her, "My generation has created industry, and your generation must humanize it."