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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.
William Green elected to succeed him as president of the American Federation of Labor. [30] 2 June 1924 (United States) Child Labor Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was proposed. Only 28 of the necessary 36 states ever ratified it. 9 September 1924 (United States)
State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago.
Tensions between African-American and white suffragists persisted, even after the NWSA and AWSA merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890. [38] By the early 1900s, white suffragists often adopted strategies designed to appease the Southern states at the expense of African-American women.
Harding died in August 1923 and was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge, [108] [109] who was firmly in the conservative wing of the Republican Party. In 1920–21, La Follette continued his support for the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War, in addition to his vigorous denunciation of imperialism and militarism in that conflict and beyond.
Labor unions, especially those affiliated with the American Federation of Labor (AFL), grew rapidly in the early 20th century, and had a progressive agenda as well. After experimenting in the early 20th century with cooperation with business in the National Civic Federation , the AFL turned after 1906 to a working political alliance with the ...
Drexel Furniture, banned Congress from levying a tax on goods produced through child labor entered into interstate trade; both rulings caused the introduction of the Child Labor Amendment. [8] The ruling of the Court was later overturned and repudiated in a series of decisions handed down in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Specifically, Hammer v.
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.