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Civilizing capitalism : the National Consumers' League, women's activism, and labor standards in the New Deal era / Landon R.Y. Storrs.
- Title
- Civilizing capitalism : the National Consumers' League, women's activism, and labor standards in the New Deal era / Landon R.Y. Storrs.
- Author
- Storrs, Landon R. Y.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 392 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Gender and American culture
- Uniform Title
- Gender & American culture
- Subject
- National Consumers' League > History
- National Consumers' League > Biography
- 1933-1939
- Women social reformers > United States > Biography
- Working-women's clubs > United States > History
- Women > Employment > History. > United States
- Child labor > United States > History
- Industrial welfare > United States > History
- Labor movement > United States > History
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Labor laws and legislation > United States > History
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-381) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Investigate, Agitate, Legislate: The National Consumers' League -- 2. Toward Feminist Social Democracy: The Entering Wedge Strategy -- 3. A Subtle Program Come Down from the North?: The Consumers' League Develops a Southern Strategy -- 4. The Acid Test of the New Deal: The National Recovery Administration, 1933-1935 -- 5. Bucking the Bourbons: Lucy Mason Organizes for the Consumers' League in the South -- 6. Agents of the New Deal: Consumers' League Women Campaign in Virginia, South Carolina, and Kentucky -- 7. Ambiguous Victory: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 -- 8. Reaction: The Consumers' League Program under Attack -- 9. Always Democracy: The Consumers' League in the Post-New Deal Era -- App. 1. National Consumers' League Officers, 1933 and 1941 -- App. 2. Biographical Data on Fifty Consumers' League Activists in the 1930s -- App. 3. Selected Landmarks in the History of Labor Standards Regulation.
- ISBN
- 0807825271 (cl. : alk. paper)
- 0807848387 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99032197^
- OCLC
- 41488668
- SCSB-9963954
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library