The Women's Movement in the Early 20th Century

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This paper researches the convergence of factors that surrounded the simultaneous labor and women's movements in the early 20th century and how this intersected and affected legal, political and economic structural orders over time.

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Objective
Introduction
Literature Review
Summary and Conclusion

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"Manza relates that there are four theories, which compete in terms of empirical research of New Deal political change, which include: (1) Those emphasizing the importance of social movements from below in generating momentum for political reform, (2) those highlighting the centrality of business influence on successful New Deal reform initiatives, (3) feminist models, and (4) historical institutional models. This work specifically examines the historical institutional model in combination with the feminist model as related to the centrality of business influence and including the social movements within the feminist model during this specific era of time in American politics. Therefore, Manza is correct in one aspect but to properly understand history the social movement that existed within the feminist movement, which next, existed within the business arena or specifically labor in terms of women in the workforce all must be inclusive as these three movement in combination worked to change the shape and face of the institutional model as the structural barriers to real equality for women who worked and who pushed toward social change propelled these movements forward for change."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bernstein, David E. (2003) Review: Lochner's Feminist Legacy. Michigan Law Review Vol. 101, No. 6 2003 May.
• Cobble, Dorothy Sue (2003) The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America. Princeton University Press. Chapter One online available at: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7635.html
• Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era. by Noralee Frankel, Nancy S. Dye - Author(s) of Review: Nancy Folbre. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Dec., 1992),
• Julie Novkov, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive and New Deal Years (2001)
• Louise Newman, White Women's Rights(1999)

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