Just finished reading "The Woman Behind the New Deal", a biography of Francis Perkins. Can't recommend this enough. One side story is that Unions oppose many of the New Deal labor programs!
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-woman-behind-the-new-deal-the-life-of-frances-perkins-fdr-s-secretary-of-labor-and-his-moral-conscience-and-the-minimum-wage-kirstin-downey/9170dbf25acb954c?ean=9781400078561&next=t

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