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A Class by Herself - Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s (Paperback)
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A Class by Herself - Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s (Paperback)
Series: Politics and Society in Modern America
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A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of
protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step
toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights.
Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall
of women-only state protective laws--such as maximum hour laws,
minimum wage laws, and night work laws--from their roots in
progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the
feminist attack on single-sex protective laws in the 1960s and
1970s. Nancy Woloch considers the network of institutions that
promoted women-only protective laws, such as the National
Consumers' League and the federal Women's Bureau; the global
context in which the laws arose; the challenges that proponents
faced; the rationales they espoused; the opposition that evolved;
the impact of protective laws in ever-changing circumstances; and
their dismantling in the wake of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964. Above all, Woloch examines the constitutional conversation
that the laws provoked--the debates that arose in the courts and in
the women's movement. Protective laws set precedents that led to
the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and to current labor law; they
also sustained a tradition of gendered law that abridged
citizenship and impeded equality for much of the century. Drawing
on decades of scholarship, institutional and legal records, and
personal accounts, A Class by Herself sets forth a new narrative
about the tensions inherent in women-only protective labor laws and
their consequences.
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