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The US Supreme Court?s 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, upholding the constitutionality of Washington State?s minimum wage law for women, had monumental consequences for all American workers. It also marked a major shift in the Court?s response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt?s 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 state?s 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 litigants? stories. Drawing on archival and private materials, including the unpublished memoir of Elsie?s lawyer, C. B. Conner, Knowles exposes the profound courage and resolve of the former
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