Protective Labor Legislation: With Special Reference to Women in the State of New YorkColumbia University, 1925 - 463 pages |
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... State of New York Elizabeth Faulkner Baker. ARTES 1837 SCIENTIA LIBRARY VERITAS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TCEBOR SI - QUERIS PENINSULAM AMNAM CIRCUMSPICE RECEIVED IN EXCHANGE FROM Columbia Univ Libr HI 6083 46 N7 ва.
... State of New York Elizabeth Faulkner Baker. ARTES 1837 SCIENTIA LIBRARY VERITAS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TCEBOR SI - QUERIS PENINSULAM AMNAM CIRCUMSPICE RECEIVED IN EXCHANGE FROM Columbia Univ Libr HI 6083 46 N7 ва.
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... received irregular treatment in the courts of the several states and all important decisions affirm- ing provisions for minimum wages in private employment have applied to acts relating to women and minors . As judicial reasoning ...
... received irregular treatment in the courts of the several states and all important decisions affirm- ing provisions for minimum wages in private employment have applied to acts relating to women and minors . As judicial reasoning ...
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... received first attention at bar in the truck acts of the eighties.1 And beginning with these initial cases , the courts , high and low , have been increasingly pressed by advocates of labor legisla- tion for a broader interpretation of ...
... received first attention at bar in the truck acts of the eighties.1 And beginning with these initial cases , the courts , high and low , have been increasingly pressed by advocates of labor legisla- tion for a broader interpretation of ...
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... received the expressed favor of a large majority of the people in a referendum vote . Pro- vision had been made for the referendum by special legisla- tive act two years before . 66 When the supreme court of the territory reviewed the ...
... received the expressed favor of a large majority of the people in a referendum vote . Pro- vision had been made for the referendum by special legisla- tive act two years before . 66 When the supreme court of the territory reviewed the ...
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... received sanction by the court in October , 1908 , ' first by the appellate division of the supreme court , and then by the court of appeals . No further appeal was made and the law stands to - day upon this decision . Kansas laws ...
... received sanction by the court in October , 1908 , ' first by the appellate division of the supreme court , and then by the court of appeals . No further appeal was made and the law stands to - day upon this decision . Kansas laws ...
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Page 265 - That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious.
Page 236 - But the fact that both parties are of full age, and competent to contract, does not necessarily deprive the state of the power to interfere, where the parties do not stand upon an equality, or where the public health demands that one party to the contract shall be protected against himself.
Page 266 - The limitations which this statute places upon her contractual powers, upon her right to agree with her employer as to the time she shall labor, are not imposed solely for her benefit, but also largely for the benefit of all.
Page 272 - No minor under the age of eighteen years, and no female shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any factory in this state before six o'clock in the morning, or after nine o'clock in the evening of any day...
Page 270 - is free to recognize degrees of harm and it may confine its restrictions to those classes of cases where the need is deemed to be clearest.
Page 235 - The enactment does not profess to limit the hours of all workmen, but merely those who are employed in underground mines, or in the smelting, reduction, or refining of ores or metals. These employments when too long pursued the legislature has judged to be detrimental to the health of the employees, and, so long as there are reasonable grounds for believing that this is so, its decision upon this subject cannot be reviewed by the Federal courts.
Page 244 - I think that the word liberty in the Fourteenth Amendment is perverted when it is held to prevent the natural outcome of a dominant opinion, unless it can be said that a rational and fair man necessarily would admit that the statute proposed would infringe fundamental principles as they have been 22 understood by the traditions of our people and our law.
Page 221 - Under the powers inherent in every sovereignty, a government may regulate the conduct of its citizens toward each other, and, when necessary for the public good, the manner in which each shall use his own property.
Page 265 - This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her. Even when they are not, by abundant testimony of the medical fraternity continuance for a long time on her feet at work, repeating this from day to day, tends to injurious effects upon the body, and as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of woman becomes an object of public interest and care in order to preserve the strength and vigor of the race.
Page 236 - The legislature has also recognized the fact, which the experience of legislators in many States has corroborated, that the proprietors of these establishments and their operatives do not stand upon an equality, and that their interests are, to a certain extent, conflicting.