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MAKING MINIMUM WAGE IBD

HELEN J KNOWLES / HELEN JKNOWLES
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
07 / 2021
9780806169385
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Sinopsis

The US Supreme CourtâÇÖs 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, upholding the constitutionality of Washington StateâÇÖs minimum wage law for women, had monumental consequences for all American workers. It also marked a major shift in the CourtâÇÖs response to President Franklin D. RooseveltâÇÖs New Deal agenda. In Making Minimum Wage, Helen J. Knowles tells the human story behind this historic case.West Coast Hotel v. Parrish pitted a Washington State hotel against a chambermaid, Elsie Parrish, who claimed that she was owed the stateâÇÖs minimum wage. The hotel argued that under the concept of 'freedom of contract,' the US Constitution allowed it to pay its female workers whatever low wages they were willing to accept. Knowles unpacks the legal complexities of the case while telling the litigantsâÇÖ stories. Drawing on archival and private materials, including the unpublished memoir of ElsieâÇÖs lawyer, C. B. Conner, Knowles exposes the profound courage and resolve of the former chambermaid. Her book reveals why Elsie-who, in her mid-thirties was already a grandmother-was fired from her job at the Cascadian Hotel in Wenatchee, and why she undertook the outsized risk of suing the hotel for back wages.Minimum wage laws are 'not an academic question or even a legal one,' Elinore Morehouse Herrick, the New York director of the National Labor Relations Board, said in 1936. Rather, they are 'a human problem.' A pioneering analysis that illuminates the life stories behind West Coast Hotel v. Parrisháas well as the caseâÇÖs impact on local, state, and national levels, Making Minimum Wage vividly demonstrates the fundamental truth of Morehouse HerrickâÇÖs statement.

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