Constituting workers, protecting women : gender, law, and labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal years
"Constitutional considerations of protective laws for women were the analytical battlefield on which the legal community reworked the balance between private liberty and the state's authority to regulate. Julie Novkov focuses on the importance of gender as an analytical category for the legal system. During the Progressive Era and New Deal, courts often invalidated generalized protective legislation, but frequently upheld measures that limited women's terms and conditions of labor. The book explores the reasoning in such cases that were decided between 1873 and 1937. By analyzing all reported opinion on the state and federal level, as well as materials from the women's movement and briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, the study demonstrates that considerations of cases involving women's measures ultimately came to drive the development of doctrine."
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1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) : illustrations
9780472022861, 9781282423404, 9786612423406, 0472022865, 1282423401, 6612423404
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Rethinking the constitutional crisis of the 1930s : the forgotten doctrinal roots of the modern welfare state
Generalized balancing : the early struggles over protective labor legislation
Specific balancing : regulating labor and laborers
Laborer-centered analysis : the ascendancy of women's legislation
Gendered rebalancing : minimum wages and the battle over equality
Reflecting on gender, due process, and constitutional development
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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