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Rescuing the Sweatshop
Crawford, Kenneth G. | July 22, 1939 issue

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When the U.S. administration finally put over the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 after a heartbreaking two-year fight against the obstructionists of the House Rules Committee, its accomplishment was hailed by liberals as one of the finest monuments to social justice the new deal had erected. With the minimum hourly wage for industrial workers fixed at 25 cents and the maximum work week at 44 hours, it seemed reasonable to believe that the sweatshop was gone forever, even though the millennium was not yet at hand. But the sweatshop still flourishes and the modest objectives of the law have not been achieved.

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SOCIAL justice; UNITED States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules; LIBERALS; EQUALITY; SWEATSHOPS; FACTORIES; UNITED States
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