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Article: Civilizing Capitalism: the National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era.
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Southern Historical Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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... ... but last week Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) announced that it will reward agents who sizably increase their NCL sales with incentive pay on NCFs. Incentive Plan Agencies that double the number of NCL sailed passengers in 2003 from their 2002 ...
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