Description: Class by Herself : Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s, Paperback by Woloch, Nancy, ISBN 0691176167, ISBN-13 9780691176161, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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, th 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 Womens 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 womens 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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Book Title: Class by Herself : Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Class by Herself : Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Discrimination, United States / 20th Century, Women in Business, Gender & the Law, Labor & Employment
Publication Year: 2017
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Law, Business & Economics, History
Author: Nancy Woloch
Item Width: 6.5 in
Series: Politics and Society in Modern America Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
