Ladies, Laundries & The Third Reich By Henry Mark Holzer
In today’s nanny culture, where individuals are deemed incapable of looking out for their own interests and government is supposedly looking our for everyone’s welfare, wage and hour legislation is an accepted commonplace. But this was not always so.
Back in 1903, the enlightened State of Oregon enacted a law regulating the working hours of women, a supposedly noble endeavor designed to protect the “weaker sex” from exploitation.
The statute provided that “...no female [shall] be employed in any mechanical establishment, or factory, or laundry in this state more than ten hours during any one day.”
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