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Murphy, Laura.

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"The laborer's right to a decent livelihood": Catholic social thought and activism and the United States minimum wage, 1879--1938.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	"The laborer's right to a decent livelihood": Catholic social thought and activism and the United States minimum wage, 1879--1938./
作者:	Murphy, Laura.
面頁冊數:	327 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0734.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-02A.
標題:	History, United States. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3165062
ISBN:	0542002078

"The laborer's right to a decent livelihood": Catholic social thought and activism and the United States minimum wage, 1879--1938.
Murphy, Laura.

"The laborer's right to a decent livelihood": Catholic social thought and activism and the United States minimum wage, 1879--1938. - 327 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0734.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2005.

My dissertation explores the development of Catholic social thought and activism in the United States from the 1870s to the 1930s. I argue that Irish-Catholic laypeople and clergy helped to shape minimum wage policy from its origins in state laws for women, to the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938. Irish-Catholic minimum wage advocates derived their views of economic justice from Catholic traditions of anti-individualism and moral control over economic practice that challenged economic liberalism. These activists understood these Catholic traditions in the context of American democratic and republican ideals; Catholic minimum wage advocates developed a view of social justice that drew on both Catholic and American ideals.

ISBN: 0542002078Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

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