05272nam 2200877 a 450 991082655590332120230421041354.01-4008-1638-61-282-75213-897866127521311-4008-2156-81-4008-1201-110.1515/9781400821563(CKB)111056486502520(EBL)581604(OCoLC)700688619(SSID)ssj0000114090(PQKBManifestationID)11138853(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114090(PQKBWorkID)10101438(PQKB)11542107(OCoLC)51453589(MdBmJHUP)muse35983(DE-B1597)446154(OCoLC)979741532(OCoLC)984652164(DE-B1597)9781400821563(Au-PeEL)EBL581604(CaPaEBR)ebr10035872(CaONFJC)MIL275213(MiAaPQ)EBC581604(EXLCZ)9911105648650252019940106d1994 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBound by our Constitution women, workers, and the minimum wage /Vivien HartCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc19941 online resource (272 p.)Princeton studies in American politicsDescription based upon print version of record.1-4008-0351-9 0-691-03480-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-246) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --PREFACE --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --CHAPTER ONE. Constitutional Politics --CHAPTER TWO. No Sweat: Work and Women, Britain, 1895-1905 --CHAPTER THREE. Low-Paid Workers: The Trade Boards Act, Britain, 1906-1909 --CHAPTER FOUR. A Sex Problem: The Politics of Difference, U.S.A., 1907-1921 --CHAPTER FIVE Police Power: The Welfare of Women, U.S.A., 1907-1921 --CHAPTER SIX. Gender Trap: Protection versus Equality, U.S.A., 1921-1923 --CHAPTER SEVEN. Due Process: The Welfare of the Economy, U.S.A., 1923-1937 --CHAPTER EIGHT. Labor and Commerce: The Fair Labor Standards Act, U.S.A., 1937-1938 --CHAPTER NINE. Conclusion: The Minimum Wage in the 1990's --ABBREVIATIONS --NOTES --INDEXWhat difference does a written constitution make to public policy? How have women workers fared in a nation bound by constitutional principles, compared with those not covered by formal, written guarantees of fair procedure or equitable outcome? To investigate these questions, Vivien Hart traces the evolution of minimum wage policies in the United States and Britain from their common origins in women's politics around 1900 to their divergent outcomes in our day. She argues, contrary to common wisdom, that the advantage has been with the American constitutional system rather than the British.Basing her analysis on primary research, Hart reconstructs legal strategies and policy decisions that revolved around the recognition of women as workers and the public definition of gender roles. Contrasting seismic shifts and expansion in American minimum wage policy with indifference and eventual abolition in Britain, she challenges preconceptions about the constraints of American constitutionalism versus British flexibility. Though constitutional requirements did block and frustrate women's attempts to gain fair wages, they also, as Hart demonstrates, created a terrain in the United States for principled debate about women, work, and the state--and a momentum for public policy--unparalleled in Britain. Hart's book should be of interest to policy, labor, women's, and legal historians, to political scientists, and to students of gender issues, law, and social policy.Princeton studies in American politics.Minimum wageLaw and legislationUnited StatesHistorySex discrimination in employmentLaw and legislationUnited StatesHistoryWagesWomenLaw and legislationUnited StatesHistoryWomenEmploymentUnited StatesHistoryMinimum wageLaw and legislationGreat BritainHistorySex discrimination in employmentLaw and legislationGreat BritainHistoryWagesWomenLaw and legislationGreat BritainHistoryWomenEmploymentGreat BritainHistoryMinimum wageLaw and legislationHistory.Sex discrimination in employmentLaw and legislationHistory.WagesWomenLaw and legislationHistory.WomenEmploymentHistory.Minimum wageLaw and legislationHistory.Sex discrimination in employmentLaw and legislationHistory.WagesWomenLaw and legislationHistory.WomenEmploymentHistory.344/.0121342.4121Hart Vivien288997MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826555903321Bound by our Constitution4100917UNINA