{"id":1877,"date":"2025-05-15T16:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/?page_id=1877"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:07:51","slug":"labor-and-labor-the-sexism-and-legacy-of-muller-v-oregon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/online\/volume-xxvi-online\/labor-and-labor-the-sexism-and-legacy-of-muller-v-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor and Labor: The Sexism and Legacy of Muller v. Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the seminal 1905 case <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lochner v. New York<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law limiting bakers\u2019 working hours. The Court ruled that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a right to freedom of contract, and the law limiting bakers\u2019 hours violated that right. Two years later, a practically identical case arising out of Oregon came before the Court, but this time concerning laundry workers. The Supreme Court upheld Oregon\u2019s regulation and found it did not violate the laundry workers\u2019 right to contract. The only difference between the two cases: the bakers were men and the laundry workers were women. Part I of this Essay reviews the decision in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lochner v. New York<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Part II evaluates the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Muller v. Oregon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> case, its background, the Brandeis Brief, and the decision. Finally, in Part III, this essay looks at the lasting implications of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Muller v. Oregon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/Labor-and-Labor.pdf\">Keep Reading Labor and Labor: The Sexism and Legacy of <em>Muller v. Oregon<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the seminal 1905 case Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law limiting bakers\u2019 working hours. The Court ruled that the Due Process Clause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12140,"featured_media":0,"parent":1685,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1877","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877\/revisions\/1878"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}