Talk: Florence Kelley and the Improbable Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in the United States, 1887-1899

A pioneering women’s history scholar, Sklar’s books include the prize-winning Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work: the Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995), Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement (2000), and Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (1973).

This event is a part of Economic Justice in a World of Corporate Hegemony, a series of UCSB talks and workshops sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy; and the Policy History Program.