Constituting workers, protecting women
Subtitle: gender, law, and labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal years
By: Julie Novkov.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.; Labor laws and legislation -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking the constitutional crisis of the 1930s : the forgotten doctrinal roots of the modern welfare state; title: Generalized balancing : the early struggles over protective labor legislation; title: Specific balancing : regulating labor and laborers; title: Laborer-centered analysis : the ascendancy of women's legislation; title: Gendered rebalancing : minimum wages and the battle over equality; title: Reflecting on gender, due process, and constitutional development.