Fishback, Price Van Meter; Seltzer, Andrew - 2020
waves of minimum wage activity over the past century, beginning with a 1912 Massachusetts law. Since 1938 minimum wages in … national law and closing important coverage gaps. Between 1938 and 1968, the real value of the federal minimum wage was … we examine the political economy of early minimum wage laws, focussing on the role of interest groups, politicians …