TY  - GEN
T1  - Bound by Our Constitution : Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage.
A1  - Hart, Vivien
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn700688619
AB  - What difference does a written constitution make to public policy? How have women workers fared in a nation bound by constitutional principles, compared with those not covered by formal, written guarantees of fair procedure or equitable outcome? To investigate these questions, Vivien Hart traces the evolution of minimum wage policies in the United States and Britain from their common origins in women's politics around 1900 to their divergent outcomes in our day. She argues, contrary to common wisdom, that the advantage has been with the American constitutional system rather than the British. Ba.
OP  - 272
CN  - K1781.H37 1994
SN  - 9781400821563
SN  - 1400821568
SN  - 9780691034805
KW  - Minimum wage : Law and legislation : United States : History.
KW  - Sex discrimination in employment : Law and legislation : United States : History.
KW  - Wages : Women : Law and legislation : United States : History.
KW  - Women : Employment : United States : History.
KW  - Minimum wage : Law and legislation : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Sex discrimination in employment : Law and legislation : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Wages : Women : Law and legislation : Great Britain : History.
KW  - Women : Employment : Great Britain : History.
KW  - LAW : Constitutional.
KW  - Minimum wage : Law and legislation
KW  - Sex discrimination in employment : Law and legislation
KW  - Wages : Women : Law and legislation
KW  - Women : Employment
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - United States
KW  - History
ER  -