Split Labor and the Minimum Wage

Here are the slides for my talk at SPSA this year.

The talk is about how the AFL-CIO split during the federal minimum wage debates during the New Deal was an extremely important and overlooked part of the creation of the bill (I talk about some other stuff too). The conventional wisdom is that the north/south split among Congressional Democrats was the most important consideration.

Please e-mail at olso4075 [at] umn.edu if you would like a copy of the paper. (That address is no longer active — see the about page for a current one.)