<P> Using 2017 inflation - adjusted dollars, the federal minimum wage peaked at $11.53 per hour in 1968 . If the minimum wage in 1968 had kept up with labor's productivity growth, it would have reached $19.33 in 2017 . There is a racial difference for support of a higher minimum wage with most black and Latino individuals supporting a $15.00 federal minimum wage, and 54% of whites opposing it . In 2015, about three percent of white, Asian, and Latino workers earned the federal minimum wage or less . Among black workers, the percentage was about four percent . </P> <P> President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 </P> <P> Minimum wage legislation emerged at the end of the nineteenth century from the desire to end sweated labor which had developed in the wake of industrialization . Sweatshops employed large numbers of women and young workers, paying them what were considered nonliving wages that did not allow workers to afford the necessaries of life . Besides substandard wages, sweating was also associated with long work hours and unsanitary work conditions . From the 1890s to the 1920s, during the Progressive Era, a time of social activists and political reform across the United States, progressive reformers, women's organizations, religious figures, academics, and politicians all played an important role in getting state minimum wage laws passed throughout the United States . </P> <P> The first successful attempts at using minimum wage laws to ameliorate the problem of nonliving wages occurred in the Australian state of Victoria in 1896 . Factory inspector reports and newspaper reporting on the conditions of sweated labor in Melbourne, Victoria led in 1895 to the formation of the National Anti-Sweating League which pushed the government aggressively to deal legislatively with the problem of substandard wages . The government, following the recommendation of the Victorian Chief Secretary Alexander Peacock, established wage boards which were tasked with establishing minimum wages in the labor trades which suffered from nonlivable wages . During the same time period, campaigns against sweated labor were occurring in the United States and England . </P>

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