In modern society, one seeks out a job that pays far above minimum wage, simply because one feels it is not sustainable enough for simple needs. Thus, the issue of what price the minimum wage should be comes about. One begins to seek and advocate for a higher minimum payment for a job well done. In 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a federal document that set the tone for generations to follow, the Fair Labor Statistics Act. This long anticipated document set forth rules regarding a minimum pay requirement for people across the country, setting the national minimum wage at $0.25 an hour with a forty-four hour work week and the banning of cruel child labor, making it the first document of its kind to pass through Congress. However, many other bills and acts which had the support of the President had tried and failed to pass through Congress.
The author describes the conditions for workers before the FLSA, communicating the harsh struggles people of the early
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The NIRA was passed by President F.D.R. in 1933, and sparked a revolution in the citizens of the United States of America. Virtually all descriptions of workers and the conditions in which they spent the majority of their time include overwhelming statics of their financial situation, in which “…the annual wages of the average American were $380, well below the poverty line of $500 per year,” resulting in readers having a strong emotional response, as they continue to see that sexism also plays a role, as “men generally earned higher wages, enjoyed freedom of contract, and could join and rely on the protection of unions…women and minors were not afforded such luxuries” (ProCon.org). While it is logical to assume that most men would do the work to provide for their families, it is nonsensical to assume that the amount of income the men made was sustainable for an entire