February 20, 2021

S1E3: Part II: Minimum Wage Politics Now Pales In Comparison To the Political Drama At Its Inception - A Heroine Behind It All

20 minutes

Establishing a national minimum wage was a revolutionary idea that entailed a constitutional court crisis and impeachment hearings. And at the center of it all, was a woman - Frances Perkins, America's first female member of a U.S. Cabinet.

📚 For the full list of sources either cited in or consulted for this podcast, please visit its corresponding post here https://thepeel.news/2021/02/20/minimum-wage-politics-2021-verus-1930s/. Below is a list that includes some of them:

Cameron, Rondo; Neal, Larry. A Concise Economic History of The World, 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Caouette, Mick. Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare. A 2020 PBS documentary film, available on Amazon Prime Video.

Downey, Kirstin. The Woman Behind The New Deal - The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and Hist Moral Conscience. Random House, 2009. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Behind-New-Deal-Unemployment/dp/1400078563/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kirstin+downey&qid=1613770724&sr=8-1

Feldman, Noah. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices. Norton, 2010.

Lewis, Nathan. GOLD - The Once And Future Money. Wiley & Sons, 2007.

Scalia, Antonin. Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived. Crown Forum, 2017.

Sowell, Thomas. Basic Economics, A Common Sense Guide to the Economy. 3rd ed. Perseus Books Group, 2007.

Thomas, Evan. First, Sandra Day O'Connor. Random House, 2019.

Wapshott, Nicholas. Sphinx - Franklin Roosevelt, The Isolationist, And The Road To World War II. Norton, 2015.

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