Lochner v. New York · ¶39

In the Eighteenth Annual Report by the New York Bureau of Statistics of Labor it is stated that among the occupations involving exposure to conditions that interfere with nutrition is that of a baker (p. 52). In that Report it is also stated that ‘‘from asocial point of view, production will be increased by any change in industrial organization which diminishes" the number of idlers, paupers and criminals. Shorter hours of work, by allowing higher standards of comfort and purer family life, promise to enhance the -industrial efficiency of the wage-working class — improved health, longer life, more content and greater intelligence and inventiveness” (p. 82).

U. S. Reports, bound volume
U. S. Reports, volume 198, at 45 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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