Article: Civilizing Capitalism: the National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era.

By Landon R. Y. Storrs. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xvi], 392. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4838-7; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2527-1.)

As little scholarly work has been done on the National Consumers' League (NCL) after the Progressive era, this book is a welcome contribution. Storrs's stated major aim is to demonstrate how the NCL's "entering wedge" strategy in the South during the 1930s "transformed wage-hour regulation ... from a state-level policy that affected women alone to a national policy extending to men and women alike" (p. 4). She examines how the NCL (which was led by ...

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