Women wage

Women Wage / The Fight That Brought the Minimum Wage

For a fourteen-year period in American history, minimum-wage laws were officially verboten in every last state of the union, having been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on April 9, 1923. The case, Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, concerned a Washington D.C. law that established a minimum wage for women and children employed within the city. … Continue reading →