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Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years by Julie Lavonne Novkov

Authors: Julie Lavonne Novkov
ISBN-13: 9780472111985, ISBN-10: 0472111981
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Julie Lavonne Novkov

Book Synopsis

Studies historical constitutional development in relation to protective laws for women in the U.S. during the Progressive Era and early New Deal years

Table of Contents

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Acknowledgments
Ch. 1Rethinking the Constitutional Crisis of the 1930s: The Forgotten Doctrinal Roots of the Modern Welfare State1
Ch. 2Generalized Balancing: The Early Struggles over Protective Labor Legislation37
Ch. 3Specific Balancing: Regulating Labor and Laborers77
Ch. 4Laborer-Centered Analysis: The Ascendancy of Women's Legislation131
Ch. 5Gendered Rebalancing: Minimum Wages and the Battle over Equality183
Ch. 6Reflecting on Gender, Due Process, and Constitutional Development241
App. on Data and Methods275
Bibliography277
Cases Cited297
Index307

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