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Item Details
Title:
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A CLASS BY HERSELF
PROTECTIVE LAWS FOR WOMEN WORKERS, 1890S-1990S |
By: |
Nancy Woloch |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£32.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0691002592 |
ISBN 13: |
9780691002590 |
Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
20 April, 2015 |
Series: |
Politics and Society in Modern America |
Pages: |
352 |
Synopsis: |
A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws--such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws--from their roots in progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the feminist attack on single-sex protective laws in the 1960s and 1970s. Nancy Woloch considers the network of institutions that promoted women-only protective laws, such as the National Consumers' League and the federal Women's Bureau; the global context in which the laws arose; the challenges that proponents faced; the rationales they espoused; the opposition that evolved; the impact of protective laws in ever-changing circumstances; and their dismantling in the wake of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Above all, Woloch examines the constitutional conversation that the laws provoked--the debates that arose in the courts and in the women's movement.Protective laws set precedents that led to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and to current labor law; they also sustained a tradition of gendered law that abridged citizenship and impeded equality for much of the century. Drawing on decades of scholarship, institutional and legal records, and personal accounts, A Class by Herself sets forth a new narrative about the tensions inherent in women-only protective labor laws and their consequences. |
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10 halftones. |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
Prizes: |
Commended for David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History or |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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