Bound by Our Constitution (eBook)

Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage

Vivien Hart (Autor)

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1994
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2156-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Vivien Hart is Reader in American Studies at the University of Sussex.

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What difference does a written constitution make to public policy? How have women workers fared in a nation bound by constitutional principles, compared with those not covered by formal, written guarantees of fair procedure or equitable outcome? To investigate these questions, Vivien Hart traces the evolution of minimum wage policies in the United States and Britain from their common origins in women's politics around 1900 to their divergent outcomes in our day. She argues, contrary to common wisdom, that the advantage has been with the American constitutional system rather than the British.Basing her analysis on primary research, Hart reconstructs legal strategies and policy decisions that revolved around the recognition of women as workers and the public definition of gender roles. Contrasting seismic shifts and expansion in American minimum wage policy with indifference and eventual abolition in Britain, she challenges preconceptions about the constraints of American constitutionalism versus British flexibility. Though constitutional requirements did block and frustrate women's attempts to gain fair wages, they also, as Hart demonstrates, created a terrain in the United States for principled debate about women, work, and the state--and a momentum for public policy--unparalleled in Britain. Hart's book should be of interest to policy, labor, women's, and legal historians, to political scientists, and to students of gender issues, law, and social policy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.1994
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Schlagworte: activism • Albert Levitt • Alice Kessler-Harris • Amendment • Beatrice Webb • Bill (law) • Bill of rights • Brookings Institution • Cable Act • central authority • Civil and Political Rights • commerce clause • Common Law • Constitution • constitutional amendment • constitutional crisis • Constitutionalism • Constitutionality • constitutional law • constitutional right • Corporatism • Cross-class alliance • decentralization • Due Process • Due Process Clause • Employment • E. P. Thompson • Equal Opportunities Commission (United Kingdom) • Equal Pay Act of 1963 • Equal Rights Amendment • Factory Acts • Fair Labor Standards Act • federal law • Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • freedom of contract • Grace Abbott • Henry Demarest Lloyd • imperialism • Individual and group rights • industrial unionism • judicial deference • Judicial interpretation • Labor history (discipline) • Labor Right • labour law • Labour movement • Law of the United States • Law's Empire • Legal Formalism • legal profession • Legislation • living wage • Lucy Randolph Mason • mandatory sentencing • Mann Act • Margaret Dreier Robins • Mary Lyndon Shanley • minimum wage • minimum wage law • National Civic Federation • National Consumers League • National Labor Relations Act • Necessity • New Laws • original intent • Original Meaning • Police power (United States constitutional law) • Policy • political constitution • popular sovereignty • Precedent • presumption • Procedural due process • Progressive Era • progressivism • protective laws • Provision (contracting) • Public morality • Reclaiming (Neopaganism) • Right to petition • right to property • Rule of Law • Sovereignty • Standing (law) • state responsibility • states' rights • Substantive Due Process • Suffrage • Taking Rights Seriously • Their Lives • The Realist • Trade regulation • Trade Union • Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe • Union label • United States antitrust law • United States constitution • United States v. E. C. Knight Co. • Wendy Kaminer • Women and the Law
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2156-8 / 1400821568
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2156-3 / 9781400821563