Constituting workers, protecting women gender, law, and labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal years
"Constitutional considerations of protective laws for women were the analytical battlefield on which the legal community reworked the balance between private liberty and the state's authority to regulate. Julie Novkov focuses on the importance of gender as an analytical category for the le...
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Ann Arbor
The University of Michigan Press
2001, [2001]©2001
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Rethinking the constitutional crisis of the 1930s : the forgotten doctrinal roots of the modern welfare state
- Generalized balancing : the early struggles over protective labor legislation
- Specific balancing : regulating labor and laborers
- Laborer-centered analysis : the ascendancy of women's legislation
- Gendered rebalancing : minimum wages and the battle over equality
- Reflecting on gender, due process, and constitutional development