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Bound by our Constitution [[electronic resource] ] : women, workers, and the minimum wage / / Vivien Hart



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Autore: Hart Vivien Visualizza persona
Titolo: Bound by our Constitution [[electronic resource] ] : women, workers, and the minimum wage / / Vivien Hart Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1994
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
Disciplina: 344/.0121
342.4121
Soggetto topico: Minimum wage - Law and legislation - United States - History
Sex discrimination in employment - Law and legislation - United States - History
Wages - Women - Law and legislation - United States - History
Women - Employment - United States - History
Minimum wage - Law and legislation - Great Britain - History
Sex discrimination in employment - Law and legislation - Great Britain - History
Wages - Women - Law and legislation - Great Britain - History
Women - Employment - Great Britain - History
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-246) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: What 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Bound by our Constitution  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-75213-8
9786612752131
1-4008-2156-8
1-4008-1201-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780050403321
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Serie: Princeton studies in American politics.