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The Law That Changed the American Workplace

Posted On: Jun 28, 2016

June 28, 2016 | LABOR HISTORY | Imagine a nation in which millions of children, some as young as 5, worked. They toiled in coal mines, glass factories and textile mills, some up to 18 hours a day. Imagine a nation in which employers paid workers as little as possible, many less than $1 per day. Imagine a nation in which workers typically labored ten to 12 hours, six days a week—though some, as in the steel industry, worked seven days...Though it has far less name recognition today, the Fair Labor Standards Act—the FLSA, signed on June 25, in 1938—changed the entire employment culture of the United States and easily rivals Society Security in its importance... time.com