Excerpt from Application of Labor Legislation to the Fruit and Vegetable Canning and Preserving Industries: Salient Facts Wisconsin adopted the same system of overtime pay for hours over 9 a day and 54 a week to eliminate needlessly long hours in canneries. Very few women worked overtime on the State's most important crops in The hours 'of-many men employees were excessive when the pea crop was canned, due unquestionably to the much larger propor tion of men than of women employed in pea canning. In Arkansas, which also regulates hours by extra payments, comparatively few women or men were employed beyond the time at which overtime rates for women begin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.