The effects of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 on the southern seamless hosiery and lumber industries

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Seltzer, AJ
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700018490
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 396-415
• 关键词: fast-food industry; minimum-wage; EMPLOYMENT

摘要

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 imposed a binding minimum wage on the southern seamless hosiery and lumber industries. However, the process of adjusting to the new minimum differed across the two industries. Seamless hosiery firms substituted capital for labor and converted or replaced old machinery. Southern lumber firms employed fewer workers relative to northern and western firms, however, changes in their resource base and war-related government purchases prevented an absolute decrease in employment levels. Numerous southern lumber firms continued to pay less than minimum rates by illegally evading the act or taking advantage of the intra-state exemption.