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Labor in the 1930s Bibliography
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New Deal, The

Notes:     Paulson recounts the last successful New Deal reform, the Fair Labor Stand- ards Act, which - while failing to establish a subsistence-level wage - placed a limit on the extent of employer exploitation.

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