Ohio's minimum wage laws for women - legal scrapbook.
WOMEN’S MINIMUM WAGE UPHELD
[Legal] Dickinson, Agnes B. Women’s Right to Work: Scrapbook. 1936.
8vo.; cloth.
An album of news service clippings from papers throughout Ohio, photographs of Dickinson,
occasional copies of legal briefs, mounted telegrams, and more; commissioned by Agnes
Dickinson for her case against the State of Ohio in 1936.
In 1936 the State of Ohio enacted a minimum wage law for women. Soon thereafter, Dickinson
initiated an action against the state on behalf of a woman who was refused employment on the
grounds that the employer could not afford to pay the newly mandated minimum wage for
women. Dickinson sued seeking the “right to work” regardless of the wage. The case eventually
made its way to the Supreme Court, who ruled against Dickinson and her client, upholding the
minimum wage: “The Ohio act is not unconstitutional. Complainant is not entitled to the relief for
which she prays, and her bill should be dismissed as prayed for by defendants. Order
accordingly.”
A compelling volume documenting an important case.
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