It wasn't until 1938, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, that workers got a minimum wage and 44-hour work week. (It was lowered to 40 hours two years later.) ...

I was so lucky. I was in labor for 14 hours, but it didn’t seem like it at all. Time really flew," she explained. Amazingly, she even took photos while in labour. "When I was ready to push ...