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Economic Coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act

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Introduction: general defects, 460. — Basic principles of coverage, 461. — Extent of coverage in relation to total employment, 462. — Groups completely exempt from the Act, 468. — Major problems involved in present coverage: competing industries in different positions, 472; gold mining, 473; wholesaling, 474; retailing, 474; exemptions, 476; construction, 476; maintenance, 477. — Suggested revisions of the Act, 477.

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  • Harry Weiss, 1944. "Economic Coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 58(3), pages 460-481.
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    1. Ellen Mutari, 2004. "Brothers and Breadwinners: Legislating Living Wages in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(2), pages 129-148.
    2. Ellen Mutari & Marilyn Power & Deborah Figart, 2002. "Neither Mothers Nor Breadwinners: African-American Women's Exclusion From US Minimum Wage Policies, 1912-1938," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 37-61.

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