“…In the latter category, the federal minimum wage is one of the more significant antipoverty policies in the U.S. social welfare regime. Yet despite significant attention to the politics of social policy (Finegold, ; Gottschalk, ; Hacker, ; Howard, ; Klein, ; Skocpol, ) and labor‐management relations (Gordon, ; Nelson, ; Orren, , ; Plotke, ), the minimum wage remains a relatively neglected topic in the scholarly literature about the politics of New Deal social and labor policy. The FLSA's minimum wage is an enduring legacy of the New Deal economic security program (Brinkley, ; Jeffries, ), and it laid the foundation for a range of other employer mandates…”