Title: A living wage for the forgotten man
First published: 1996
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."
Subjects: Full employment policies, History, Hours of labor, Labor policy, Law and legislation, New Deal, 1933-1939, United States, United States. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Wages
Places: United states
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HD8072 .P312 1996