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Author Novkov, Julie, 1966-

Title Constituting workers, protecting women : gender, law, and labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal years / Julie Novkov.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) : illustrations
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Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Print version record.
Language English.
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Summary "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."
"The study combines historical institutionalism and feminism to address constitutional interpretation, showing that an analysis of conflict over the meaning of legal categories provides a deeper understanding of constitutional development. In doing so, it rejects purely political interpretations of the so-called Lochner era, in which the courts invalidated many legislative efforts to ameliorate the worst effects of capitalism. By addressing the dynamic interactions among interested laypersons, attorneys, and judges, it demonstrates that no individuals or institutions have complete control over the generation of constitutional meaning"--Publisher's description.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Labor laws and legislation -- United States -- History.
Feminist jurisprudence -- United States.
Féminisme et droit -- États-Unis.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Labor laws and legislation
Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation
United States
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Constituting workers, protecting women. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2001 0472111981 (DLC) 00012900
ISBN 9780472022861 (ebook)
0472022865
1282423401
9781282423404
9786612423406
6612423404
0472111981 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780472111985 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.17391
AU@ 000051357644
DEBBG BV043153213
DEBSZ 421897546
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999927653405765
GBVCP 1003625886
NZ1 13861565

 
    
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