Minimum Wage Adoption Sources

Overview | Early Minimum Wages | The FLSA - Reasons and Conflict | Conclusion & References

References

Effect of minimum wage on women's earnings in Rhode Island. (1938). Monthly Labor Review. 47, 551-555.

Fleck, Robert K. (2002). Democratic opposition to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The Journal of Economic History. 62(1), 25-54.

Fleck, Robert K. (2004). Democratic opposition to the Fair Labor Standards Act: Reply to Seltzer. The Journal of Economic History. 62(1), 231-235.

Grossman, Jonathan (1978). Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: maximum struggle for a minimum wage. Monthly Labor Review. 101(6), 22-30.

Ingalls, Robert P. (1974). New York and the minimum-wage movement, 1933-1937. Labor History. 15(2), 179-198.

Leonard, Thomas C. (2005). Protecting family and race: The progressive case for regulating women's work. American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 64(3), 757-791.

Mutari, Ellen (2004). Brothers and breadwinners: Legislating living wages in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Review of Social Economy. 62(2), 129-148.

Samuel, Howard D (2000). Troubled passage: The labor movement and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Monthly Labor Review. 123(12), 32-37.

Seltzer, Andrew J. (2004). Democratic opposition to the Fair Labor Standards Act: A comment on Fleck. The Journal of Economic History. 64(1), 226-230.

Seltzer, Andrew J. (1995). The political economy of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The Journal of Political Economy. 103(6), 1302-1342.

Silver, Stephen, & Sumner, Scott (1995). Nominal and real wage cyclicality during the interwar period. Southern Economic Journal. 61(3), 588-601.