Assignment task:
Louis D. Brandeis, "Dangers of Long Hours" (Muller v. Oregon, 1908) Louis D. Brandeis, "Dangers of Long Hours Progressive lawyer, Louis Brandeis, and National Consumers League activist, Josephine Goldmark, used scientific studies to explain why the law at issue is needed, shows how the law would remedy the problem, and finally anticipates and dispels potential objections to the law. "Report of the New York Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1900" The family furnishes the really fundamental education of the growing generation-the education of character, and the family life thus really determines the quality of the rising generation as efficient or nonefficient wealth producers. If a reduction in the hours of labor does promote the growth of a purer and better family life, it will unquestionably result in the production of greater material wealth on the part of the generation trained under its influence; nothing else in fact will so effectively diminish the vast number of criminals, paupers, and idlers, who, in the present generation, consume the people's substance. When one or both parents are away from home for twelve or thirteen hours (the necessary period for those who work ten hours) a day, the children receive comparatively little attention" "Infant Mortality. A Social Problem. George Newman, MD. London, 1906" "A nation grows out of its children, and if its children die in infancy, it means that the sources of a nation's population are being sapped, and further that the conditions that kill such a large proportion of infants injure many of those which survive. Last year, 1905, there was a loss to the nation of 120,00 dead infants, in England and Wales alone, a figure which is almost exactly one quarter of all the deaths in England and Wales that year...There are two features, however, which appear to be common to the high infant mortality districts, namely, a high density of population and a considerable degree of manufacturing industry." Answer the prompt: The group should construct a response for the corresponding question below. For full credit, the response should be:
1) 6-8 sentences (it can be longer, but not shorter);
2) use direct primary source quotes;
3) provide any relevant historical context from the provided primary source above and
4) fully analyze: According to your source, is a state statute, like the 10-hour workday, limiting the length of a woman's workday constitutional? Why or why not?
How might ideas of maternalism & female difference influence the arguments being made? How does this fit within Progressive Era reform?