A living wage for the forgotten man

the long version

This book is the first history of the five-year-long struggle to improve the income and living standards of the poorest workers in the United States. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Fair Labor Standards Act the second most important reform of his New Deal administration after the Social Security Act. Although historians have considered the wage and hour law, which limited the workweek, fixed minimum wages, and banned child labor, as a last gasp of New Deal. Reform, it was a major effort to outlaw sweatshops and guarantee workers "living wages."