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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.
Progressive advocates, led by the National Child Labor Committee, pushed Congress to enact two successive federal child labor laws. The Keating-Owen Act of 1916 limited children’s work hours and ...
As part of this tradition of maternal activism, the Progressive-era General Federation supported a range of causes from the pure food and drug administration to public health care for mothers and children, to a ban on child labor, each of which looked to the state to help implement their vision of social justice. [147]
State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago.
The Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916, also known as Wick's Bill, was a short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to reduce child labor.It did so by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under 14, mines that employed children younger than 16, and any facility where children under 14 worked after 7:00 p.m. or ...
Support the 2023 Children Harmed in Life-Threatening or Dangerous (CHILD) Labor Act currently in Congress. Hold all employers accountable for illegal child labor and impose greater fines.
During the Progressive Era, public sentiment in the United States turned against what was perceived as increasingly intolerable child labor conditions. In response, Congress passed the Keating–Owen Act , prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of any merchandise that had been made either by children under the age of fourteen, or by ...
The regulation of child labour began from the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution. The first act to regulate child labour in Britain was passed in 1803. As early as 1802 and 1819 Factory Acts were passed to regulate the working hours of workhouse children in factories and cotton mills to 12 hours per day. These acts were largely ...