The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and Competing Visions of the Living Wage

Ellen Mutari
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Ellen Mutari: General Studies Program, Richard Stockton College, P.O. Box 195, Pomona NJ 08240-0195 mutarie@stockton.edu

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2000, vol. 32, issue 3, 408-416

Abstract: This article explores the relationship between legislated wage floors and the more elusive concept of a living wage. Wages are one way that society has signaled gender and racial identity and constitute an important social practice for shaping gender relations. In the debates over passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act, advocates simultaneously utilized alternative definitions of the term living wage. In part, these alternative views of the living wage reflected attempts to distinguish different forms of masculinity.

Keywords: Minimum wage; Living wage; Fair Labor Standards Act; Masculinity; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1177/048661340003200306

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