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Trattner, Walter I. Crusade for the Children: A History of the National Child Labor Committee and Child Labor Reform in America (1970) online; Tyler, John H. "Using state child labor laws to identify the effect of school-year work on high school achievement." Journal of Labor Economics 21.2 (2003): 381–408. Walker, Roger W.
The South was targeted in the 1920s and 1930s by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, which contributed matching funds to local communities for the construction of thousands of schools for African Americans in rural areas throughout the South. Black parents donated land and labor to build improved schools for their children. [81]
Child labour is the exploitation of children through ... plight of working children in the American south. ... 1920 and 1970 more than 100,000 are believed ...
State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago.
Child labour; Child soldiers ... opposed to slavery—until 1920, when America ratified the Nineteenth ... many poor Whites in the South. From 1890 to 1910, Southern ...
These clubs, most of which had started out as social literary gatherings, eventually became a source of reform for various issues in the U.S. Both African-American and white women's clubs were involved with issues surrounding education, temperance, child labor, juvenile justice, legal reform, environmental protection, library creation and more. [3]
Federal protection of some child workers finally arrived with passage of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act as part of the New Deal. Unlike earlier legislation, it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Its original goals were to encourage the formation of trade unions and to obtain legislation, such as prohibition of child labor, a national eight-hour workday, and exclusion of Chinese and other foreign contract workers. [33] [34] Strikes organized by labor unions became routine events by the 1880s. There were 37,000 strikes between 1881 and 1905.