A living wage for the forgotten man
Subtitle: the quest for fair labor standards, 1933-1941
By: George E. Paulsen.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press; Associated University Presses; Susquehanna Univ Pr
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Selinsgrove; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: United States. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.; Labor policy -- United states -- History -- 20th century.; Wages -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Hours of labor -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Full employment policies -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; New Deal, 1933-1939.
Description: This book is the first history of the five-year-long struggle to improve the income and living standards of the poorest workers in the United States. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Fair Labor Standards Act the second most important reform of his New Deal administration after the Social Security Act. Although historians have considered the wage and hour law, which limited the workweek, fixed minimum wages, and banned child labor, as a last gasp of New Deal.

Reform, it was a major effort to outlaw sweatshops and guarantee workers "living wages."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-204) and index.