Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

2223.737 - 2247.25 Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

Yeah, and she also, you know, we talked about some of the things she did earlier in terms of her career, in terms of fair labor practices. But when she was secretary of labor, she had real teeth to make real change. And during her tenure, she helped craft the Fair Labor Standards Act. She helped establish minimum wage laws, maximum work hours laws. And she finally said, you know what?