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Sweatshops in the Home
Solow, Herbert | December 2, 1939 issue

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Under a decree handed down by a federal court in New York last week some 10,000 homeworkers in the knitting-goods industry from Maine to Tennessee will reap a windfall of more than $250,000. The sum is not large as such things go, but the decision, rendered by Judge Edward A. Conger, is of prime importance far beyond the confines of the $10,000,000 industry affected. For the first time it clearly applies the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, better known as the wage-and-hour law, to industrial homeworkers and in doing so scotches a flourishing practice by which employers were enabled to pay as low as one and half cents an hour in an industry whose minimum wage had been fixed at 30 cents an hour.

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LABOR laws & legislation; FEDERAL court decisions; EMPLOYEES; KNITTING; EMPLOYERS; MINIMUM wage; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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