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After Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, he named Perkins to his cabinet. As U.S. secretary of labor, Perkins enlarged the department's Bureau of Women and Children and put its Mediation and Conciliation Service on firm footing. She played a commanding role in developing the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Industrial Recovery Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act. As chair of the president's Committee on Economic Security, Perkins contributed substantially to crafting the Social Security Act of 1935. During World War II Perkins used her power as secretary of labor to resist conservatives' efforts to undo the labor legislation of the 1930s. After Roosevelt's death in 1945, she resigned her cabinet post, and from that year until her death in 1965 she served on the Civil Service Commission.
Sources:
George Martin, Madam Secretary: Frances Perkins (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976); Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt 1 Knew (New York: Viking, 1946).
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