
Bound by Our Constitution
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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.
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Ch. 1 Constitutional Politics 3
Ch. 2 No Sweat: Work and Women, Britain, 1895-1905 14
Ch. 3 Low-Paid Workers: The Trade Boards Act, Britain, 1906-1909 39
Ch. 4 A Sex Problem: The Politics of Difference, U.S.A., 1907-1921 63
Ch. 5 Police Power: The Welfare of Women, U.S.A., 1907-1921 87
Ch. 6 Gender Trap: Protection versus Equality, U.S.A., 1921-1923 108
Ch. 7 Due Process: The Welfare of the Economy, U.S.A., 1923-1937 130
Ch. 8 Labor and Commerce: The Fair Labor Standards Act, U.S.A., 1937-1938 151
Ch. 9 Conclusion: The Minimum Wage in the 1990s 173
Abbreviations 183
Notes 185
Index 247
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