Monsignor John Ryan on the ethics and economics of minimum wage legislation

Robert Prasch

A chapter in A Research Annual, 2010, pp 39-70 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: In the US minimum wages were initially enacted by individual states, beginning with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1912. These laws were modeled on legislation enacted over the previous two decades in Australia, New Zealand, and England (Fisher, 1926, chap. 8; Hammond, 1915, 1913;Hobson, 1915;Hart, 1994, chaps. 2 & 3;Morris, 1986). From 1912 to 1923, the legislatures of 16 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia passed minimum wage legislation, although not all of them were operational by the end of this period (Brandeis, 1935, p. 501;Clark, 1921;Millis & Montgomery, 1938, chap. 6;Morris, 1930, chap. 1).

Date: 2010
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