...In this State and Pennsylvania women and minors under eighteen years of age are not allowed to labor for more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week. In Illinois a statute was passed in 1893 prohibiting the employment of females and children for longer...

...food products. This act is commonly known as the Bakeehop law. It prohibits the employment of bakers for more than ten hours per day, or sixty hours per week, unless in cases of emergency. It prohibits the use for a bakery of any cellar or basement not now in...

...In this state and Pennsylvania women and minors under eighteen years of age are not allowed to labor for more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week. In Illinois a statute was passed in 1893 prohibiting the employment of females and children for longer...

...constitutionality of the New York statute forbidding employment in bakeries and confectionery establishments for more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week, was before the Supreme Court on an appeal from the court of appeals of New York. (For the law in full,...

...A JUSTLY FAMOUS dissent from a case striking down a New York law forbidding employment in a bakery for more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that the "Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic...

...v. New York, 198 US 45 (1905) (invalidating state law prohibiting the employment of bakery workers for more than ten hours per day or sixty hours per week). Of particular interest here is Coppage v. Kansas, 2,36 US i (1915), which struck down a state law virtually...