![]() ![]() It was not an idle question, as journalist Kirstin Downey makes clear in the prologue to her shrewd, appreciative biography of Perkins. “Are you sure you want this done?” she asked FDR. ![]() The goals she outlined on that chilly winter night constituted the most sweepingly ambitious to-do list any public official had ever presented: direct federal aid for unemployment relief, a massive public works program, minimum wage and maximum work-hours legislation, compensation for workers injured on the job, workplace safety regulations, a ban on child labor and, finally - and most radically - a national pension system as well as one for health insurance. ![]() The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscienceįrances Perkins knew exactly what she wanted when President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt offered her the post of secretary of Labor in February 1933. ![]()
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