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Causes and Consequences of American Minimum Wage Legislation, 1911–1947

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Andrew Seltzer
Andrew Seltzer
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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Although in the last two decades there have been literally hundreds of studies of postwar minimum wage legislation, there have been but a handful of studies of the first federal minimum wage, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), and no studies of the state laws that preceded it.1 My dissertation attempts to bridge this gap by examining the political economy and effects of early American minimum wage legislation.

Type
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , June 1995 , pp. 376 - 378
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1995

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References

1 This dissertation was completed in 1994 in the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the direction of Lee Alston, Pablo Spiller, Jeremy A tack, and Wallace Hendricks. The support of a University of Illinois Dissertation Research Grant is acknowledged.

2 Brandeis, E., “Minimum Wage Legislation,” in Commons, J. R., ed., History of Labor in the United States, 1896–1932, vol. 3 (New York, 1935), p. 501.Google Scholar

3 Pidgeon, M., “Women in the Economy of the United States of America,” Bulletin of the Women’s Bureau, No. 155 (Washington, DC, 1937), p. 111.Google Scholar

4 United States Women’s Bureau, Bulletin, No. 61, The Development of Minimum-Wage Laws in the United States, 1912 to 1927, p. 370.Google Scholar

5 See Wright, Gavin, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War (New York, 1986), pp. 224–25Google Scholar; and Schulman, Bruce J., From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980 (New York, 1991), pp. 54–62.Google Scholar

6 Testimony by C. C. Sheppard, Chairman of the Southern Pine Industry Committee in the Committee of Education and Labor, U. S. House of Representatives, Hearings: Minimum Wage Standards (Washington, DC, 1947), pp. 215–16.Google Scholar