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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Storrs, Landon R.Y. Civilizing capitalism. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000 (OCoLC)609113945 |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Landon R Y Storrs |
| ISBN: | 0807825271 9780807825273 0807848387 9780807848388 |
| OCLC Number: | 41488668 |
| Description: | xiv, 392 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Investigate, Agitate, Legislate: The National Consumers' League -- 2. Toward Feminist Social Democracy: The Entering Wedge Strategy -- 3. A Subtle Program Come Down from the North?: The Consumers' League Develops a Southern Strategy -- 4. The Acid Test of the New Deal: The National Recovery Administration, 1933-1935 -- 5. Bucking the Bourbons: Lucy Mason Organizes for the Consumers' League in the South -- 6. Agents of the New Deal: Consumers' League Women Campaign in Virginia, South Carolina, and Kentucky -- 7. Ambiguous Victory: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 -- 8. Reaction: The Consumers' League Program under Attack -- 9. Always Democracy: The Consumers' League in the Post-New Deal Era -- App. 1. National Consumers' League Officers, 1933 and 1941 -- App. 2. Biographical Data on Fifty Consumers' League Activists in the 1930s -- App. 3. Selected Landmarks in the History of Labor Standards Regulation. |
| Series Title: | Gender & American culture. |
| Responsibility: | Landon R.Y. Storrs. |
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