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Fair labor lawyer : the remarkable life of New Deal attorney and Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin / Marlene Trestman.

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Main Author: Trestman, Marlene, 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Series:Southern biography series.
Subjects:
Margolin, Bessie.
Lawyers > United States > Biography.
Labor lawyers > United States > Biography.
Women lawyers > United States > Biography.
New Deal, 1933-1939 > Biography.
United States. > Department of Labor > Officials and employees > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Childhood, 1909-1925
  • College and law school, 1925-1933
  • Summer with a suffragist, 1933
  • Defending the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1939
  • Bachelor girl
  • Wages and hours, 1939 1946
  • An interesting adventure in Nuremberg, May-December 1946
  • Return to the Labor Department, 1947-1961
  • Equal opportunities, personal and public, 1961-1972
  • Retirement and last years, 1972-1996.

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