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December 2000

Troubled passage: the labor movement and the Fair Labor Standards Act

Howard D. Samuel

Historical events show that oppositions within the labor movement had prolonged passage of legislation relating to minimum wages and maximum hours, contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

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