Making Minimum Wage, 4: Elsie Parrish Versus the West Coast Hotel Company
The US Supreme Court's 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, upholding the constitutionality of Washington State's minimum wage law for women, had monumental consequences for all American workers. It also marked a major shift in the Court's response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agenda. In Making Minimum Wage, Helen J. Knowles tells the human story behind this historic case.West Coast Hotel v. Parrish pitted a Washington State hotel against a chambermaid, Elsie Parrish, who claimed that she was owed the state's minimum wage. The hotel argued that under the concept of freedom of contract, the US Constitution allowed it…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8061-6938-5
- EAN: 9780806169385
- Produktnummer: 36008362
- Verlag: Univ Of Oklahoma Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 396 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.3 cm 638 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 4
- Gewicht: 638
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