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Peer reviewedRatner, Ronnie Steinberg – International Labour Review, 1980
The author focuses on laws governing maximum working hours, explaining how their coverage became restricted to women and children and how organized labor showed renewed interest in universal hour laws during the Depression. She advances three hypotheses to explain how laws that once were protective became restrictive. (CT)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Discriminatory Legislation, Employed Women, Labor Conditions
