Constituting Workers, Protecting Women : Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years /

Novkov, Julie, 1966-

Constituting Workers, Protecting Women : Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years / Julie Novkov. - 1 online resource (332 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-296) and index.

Rethinking the constitutional crisis of the 1930s : the forgotten doctrinal roots of the modern welfare state -- Generalized balancing : the early struggles over protective labor legislation -- Specific balancing : regulating labor and laborers -- Laborer-centered analysis : the ascendancy of women's legislation -- Gendered rebalancing : minimum wages and the battle over equality -- Reflecting on gender, due process, and constitutional development.

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Labor laws and legislation--History.--United States
Women--Employment--Law and legislation--History.--United States


Electronic books.

KF3555 / .N68 2001

344.7301