Which pieces of federal labor legislation do you believe are most important? Why?

The Fair
Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ensures
that American workers receive a minimum wage for their work.
Before the
minimum wage was fully introduced in 1938, employers were free to pay their
workers
whatever the largely unregulated labor market dictated.

When levels of
unemployment were high, employers had the power to
drive down wages, safe in the knowledge that
there would always be enough
people willing to take a job for very little money. This gave
employers an
unfair advantage over their workers, who'd often have to take on a number of

different jobs to make ends meet.

Chronically low wages also tended
to go
alongside dangerous, unsafe working conditions. Employers
unwilling...