The New York Times, June 24, 2013, Monday

The New York Times

June 24, 2013, Monday

The New York Times (full article)

The Future of Fair Labor

By JEFFERSON COWIE

SEVENTY-FIVE years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act to give a policy backbone to his belief that goods that were not produced under “rudimentary standards of decency” should not be “allowed to pollute the channels of interstate trade."

Jefferson Cowie is a professor of labor history at Cornell and the author of “Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class.”