Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era »

Landon Storrs examines the New Deal era of the National Consumers' League, one of the most influential reform organizations of the early twentieth century. Her book offers fresh insights into the history of labor policy, the New Deal, feminism, and southern politics.

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction
1. Investigate, Agitate, Legislate: The National Consumers' League
2. Toward Feminist Social Democracy: The Entering Wedge Strategy
3. A Subtle Program Come Down from the North?: The Consumers' League Develops a Southern Strategy
4. The Acid Test of the New Deal: The National Recovery Administration, 1933-1935
5. Bucking the Bourbons: Lucy Mason Organizes for the Consumers' League in the South
6. Agents of the New Deal: Consumers' League Women Campaign in Virginia, South Carolina, and Kentucky
7. Ambiguous Victory: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
8. Reaction: The Consumers' League Program under Attack
9. Always Democracy: The Consumers' League in the Post-New Deal Era Conclusion Appendix 1. National Consumers' League Officers, 1933 and 1941
Appendix 2. Biographical Data on Fifty Consumers' League Activists in the 1930s Appendix 3. Selected Landmarks in the History of Labor Standards Regulation Notes Bibliography Index

Illustrations

Women factory inspectors, 1914
Frances Perkins and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1943
The NCL expresses its opinion of the Adkins v. Children's Hospital ruling, 1923
Textile workers struggle with a National Guardsman in Gastonia, North Carolina, 1929
Lucy Randolph Mason, ca. 1920s Josephine Casey on the cover of Equal Rights, 1931
Josephine Roche and John L. Lewis, 1936
New York City garment workers declare their determination to enforce NRA codes, ca. 1934
Women's Advisory Committee on the NRA coat and suit code, 1934
Clara Beyer, ca. 1931
Gastonia, North Carolina, textile strikers celebrate Labor Day, 1934
Gastonia, North Carolina, strikers wear posters demanding enforcement of the textile industry's NRA code, 1934
Women at work in a Louisville, Kentucky, garment factory, 1942
Anna Settle and Annie Halleck, 1941
"Southern solons band to fight wage-hour measure," 1938
Lucy Mason testifies at the Black-Connery bill hearings, 1937
Italian women packing asparagus in Pennsylvania, 1941
Elinore Herrick, 1937
Mary Dublin, ca. 1938
Eveline Burns, 1943