BOSTON, Massachusetts — A 1980s movie buff might remember that the namesake of Frances “Baby” Houseman in “Dirty Dancing” was Frances Perkins, the US secretary of labor under then ...

The Plymouth Center for Active Living will host a portrayal of Frances Perkins, the first woman ... minimum wage and child-labor restrictions. She served as Secretary of Labor under President ...

“She is literally throwing a party for herself at a federal building while bragging about right-sizing the federal workforce and slashing programs that help make sure American workers aren’t competing ...

As the keynote speaker, University of Massachusett Professor Emerita Jarice Hanson will portray Frances Perkins ... to establish a minimum wage and child labor laws and the 40-hour work week ...

Who was Frances ... of Labor from 1933 to 1945. Perkins is responsible for crafting some of the most significant legislation of the New Deal Era, including social security, child labor laws ...

The lives these 13 places honor, however, are groundbreaking and inspirational — from American Red Cross-founder Clara Barton, whose home in 1974 became the first site dedicated to a woman, to former ...

On a mud-swept afternoon in March 1933, Washington, D.C. reporters thronged around Frances Perkins ... campaigned against child labor and for a minimum wage. She mentored Perkins, who shaped ...

The country’s newest national monument honors Frances Perkins ... a minimum wage and a ban on child labor, among others. Roosevelt agreed to her priorities, and Perkins became the country ...

Frances Perkins, who famously established the minimum wage, the 40-hour work week, a ban on child labor and myriad other protections. The gathering was also a chance for the labor community to ...

President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force ...