Backstage activism: The policy initiatives of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor in the postwar era, 1945-1970
Kathleen Anne Laughlin (Author), Susan M. Hartmann (Degree supervisor)
This dissertation is a study of the policy initiatives of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor in the postwar era. As a permanent agency established in 1920 to promote state legislation safeguarding the health of female workers, the Women's Bureau faced limitations imposed upon all federal bureaucracies by Congress and organized constituencies, as well as limitations from its parent body, the Department of Labor. Empowered fifteen years before significant federal regulation of labor relations, the Women's Bureau had no enforcement authority. Thus service to constituency groups seeking to promote state and federal legislation remained the Women's Bureau's primary means of policy making throughout the postwar era
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1993
Ohio State University, [Columbus], 1993