Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish versus the West Coast Hotel Company
Author
Helen J. Knowles
Series
Studies in American Constitutional Heritage, vol. 4
Content
xvi + 376 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press
Description
Focuses on the lives of Elsie Parrish, lawyer C. B. Conner, and other litigants involved in the US Supreme Court's 1937 decision that protected women's right to a minimum wage and improved workers' rights. Based on archival research, Conner's unpublished memoir, family histories, and private records.
Main subject
Business and Work Economics Feminism and Women's Rights Law
Knowles, Helen J. Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish versus the West Coast Hotel Company. Studies in American Constitutional Heritage, vol. 4. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. Sylvia. Accessed July 15, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2065.
