En 1949, l'Allemagne remet en place un système de conventions collectives destiné à déterminer les salaires et les conditions de travail au plus près des branches de l'activité économique. Dans ce système, les partenaires sociaux jouissent d'une réelle autonomie décisionnelle face à...

1 Introduction: The Economics of a Living Wage -- 2 The Living Wage from World War I through the Great Depression -- 3 Planning a Living Wage: The NIRA -- 4 A Useful and Remunerative Job: The National Labor Relations Act -- 5 Social Security: Protection from Old Age and Unemployment -- 6 The...

The paper examines changes in wage and hour labor regulation between 1898 and 1938. Many see the 1905 Lochner Supreme Court decision striking down hours limits for men as the beginning of 30 years in which labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of "freedom of contract." That issue played a...