• http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1678.html
• http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1635.html
• http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1747.html
• http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1701.html
• http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/reimer.shtml

Using these articles, and others if necessary, answer the following questions:

• What people and organizations are responsible for the federal minimum wage and the 40-hour workweek?

• How long did these people/organizations struggle for these changes?

• How did these people and organizations make voices heard?

• What were working conditions like before the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?

• If we were to lead a movement for improved working conditions today (for instance, raising the "subminimum" for under-20 workers to the same minimum wage other workers enjoy), how would we do it?

• What terms and ideas from this history are new to you? What ideas do you want to learn more about?