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First page of S. 1861, A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, to extend its protection to additional employees, to raise the minimum wage to $2.25 an hour, to provide for an eight-hour workday, and for other purposes, 13 May 1971. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3CF9N1Q

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TitleFirst page of S. 1861, A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, to extend its protection to additional employees, to raise the minimum wage to $2.25 an hour, to provide for an eight-hour workday, and for other purposes, 13 May 1971.
Date Created1971-05-13
SubjectWilliams, Harrison A., Jr., 1919-2001
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3CF9N1Q
LanguageEnglish
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Type: Exhibition section
Name: Labor
Detail: "I certainly will do everything I can to push for more and better laws to protect the working man who is the backbone of our country." Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Remarks before the N.J. State AFL-CIO Legislative Conference, 24 March 1969.

With education positioning more Americans to be gainfully employed and more sophisticated participants in the nation's economy, it was essential that workplace practices be modified to support the Great Society's social goals. Williams sponsored legislation throughout his career aimed at ensuring justice for Americans in employment matters. Traditional practices of employment discrimination based on age, sex, race, and other factors were outlawed. Exploitative or abusive workplace practices were at least mitigated through legislation establishing minimum wages, occupational safety and health standards, and private pension protections. Williams advocated an active role for the federal government—via program and project funding and regulation—in ensuring that these broad social goals were accomplished within the essential framework of private enterprise. In response to cyclical economic downturns, government spending on projects and public employment were viewed as correctives and as productive alternatives to direct welfare payments.
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Type: Exhibition caption
Detail: One of Williams's minimum wage bills.
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Type: Finding aid
Name: Inventory to the Papers of Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
Detail: Finding aid provides description of materials in the Harrison A. Williams collection
CollectionCrossroads: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. and Great Society Liberalism, 1959-1981
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections
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