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- Title
Birth of the U.S. Colonial Minimum Wage: The Struggle over the Fair Labor Standards Act in Puerto Rico, 1938-1941.
- Authors
Macpherson, Anne S.
- Abstract
The article explores the struggle in Puerto Rico between organized labor and U.S. and local employers over the minimum wage provisions of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). It recounts the effort of militant labor groups to defend the provisions and the move by New Dealers to prevent conservatives from abolishing the FLSA. Also discussed is an amendment facilitated by New Dealers and conservatives to allow lower minimum wages in colonial holdings.
- Subjects
FAIR Labor Standards Act of 1938 (U.S.); LABOR unions; PUERTO Rican history; HISTORY of labor; NEW Deal, 1933-1939; CONSERVATIVES; HOLDING companies; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Journal of American History, 2017, Vol 104, Issue 3, p656
- ISSN
0021-8723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jahist/jax313