The Political Economy of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
研究1938年公平劳动标准法在国会的通过过程，分析选区利益、南北分歧和议员意识形态对投票的影响，发现众议院因利益集团反对而放弃设立工资委员会，改为统一最低工资标准。
This paper examines the congressional passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Voting on it is modeled as a function of the concentration of the constituencies for minimum wage legislation, North-South differentials, and legislator ideology. The House radically altered the final content of the bill, abandoning a proposed Wages and Hours Board with discretionary powers to determine minimum wages in favor of a flat rate following the objections of several interest groups; North-South divisions over the bill had little influence over congressional voting; and the influence of constituent groups increased relative to legislators' ideology as the bill became an important election issue. Copyright 1995 by University of Chicago Press.