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100 1 $aWoloch, Nancy,$d1940-$eauthor.
245 12 $aA class by herself :$bprotective laws for women workers, 1890s-1990s /$cNancy Woloch.
264 1 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2015]
300 $avii, 337 pages ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aPolitics and Society in Twentieth Century America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aRoots of protection: the National Consumers' League and progressive reform -- Gender, protection, and the courts, 1895-1907 -- A class by herself : Muller v. Oregon -- Protection in ascent, 1908-23 -- Different versus equal : the 1920s -- Transformations : the new deal through the 1950s -- Trading places : the 1960s and 1970s -- Last lap : work and pregnancy.
520 $a"A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws--such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws--from their roots in progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the feminist attack on single-sex protective laws in the 1960s and 1970s. Nancy Woloch considers the network of institutions that promoted women-only protective laws, such as the National Consumers' League and the federal Women's Bureau; the global context in which the laws arose; the challenges that proponents faced; the rationales they espoused; the opposition that evolved; the impact of protective laws in ever-changing circumstances; and their dismantling in the wake of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Above all, Woloch examines the constitutional conversation that the laws provoked--the debates that arose in the courts and in the women's movement. Protective laws set precedents that led to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and to current labor law; they also sustained a tradition of gendered law that abridged citizenship and impeded equality for much of the century. Drawing on decades of scholarship, institutional and legal records, and personal accounts, A Class by Herself sets forth a new narrative about the tensions inherent in women-only protective labor laws and their consequences. "--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aWomen$xEmployment$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSex discrimination in employment$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLAW / Gender & the Law.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLAW / Labor & Employment.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLAW / Legal History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSex discrimination in employment$xLaw and legislation.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01114415
650 7 $aWomen$xEmployment$xLaw and legislation.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01176724
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
648 7 $a1900 - 1999$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830 0 $aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America.
852 00 $bswx$hKF3555$i.W65 2015
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