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One consequence of a reinvigorated labor movement was the passage in 1938 of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The law established for the first time a minimum wage for working people (initially twenty-five cents an hour) and, beginning in 1940, set the maximum workweek at forty hours.
Sources:
Irving Bernstein, Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970);
Ellis W. Hawley, The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966);
Robert F. Himmelberg, The Origins of the National Recovery Administration (New York: Fordham University Press, 1976);
John H. Leek, Government and Labor in the United States (New York: Rinehart, 1952);
Michael M. Weinstein, Recovery and Redistribution under the NIRA (New York: North-Holland Publishing, 1980).
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