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Children's work and welfare, 1780-1890 (Cambridge UP. 1995.) Humphries, Jane. Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2011). Lichtenstein, Matty R. "Agents of reform: Child labor and the origins of the welfare state" British Journal of Sociology (2024) 75#4 pp.668-670. Nardinelli, Clark.
Due to poor employment opportunities for many parents, sending their children to work on farms and in factories was a way to help feed and support the family. [96] Child labour first started to occur in England when household businesses were turned into local labour markets that mass-produced the once homemade goods.
The main law regulating child labor in the United States is the Fair Labor Standards Act.For non-agricultural jobs, children under 14 may not be employed, children between 14 and 16 may be employed in allowed occupations during limited hours, and children between 16 and 17 may be employed for unlimited hours in non-hazardous occupations. [2]
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.
Child labour in Pakistan is the employment of children to work in Pakistan, which causes them mental, physical, moral and social harm. Child labour takes away the education from children. [ 1 ] The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated that in the 1990s, 11 million children were working in the country , half of whom were under age ten.
In 1839 Prussia was the first country to pass laws restricting child labor in factories and setting the number of hours a child could work, [1] although a child labour law was passed was in 1836 in the state of Massachusetts. [2] Almost the entirety of Europe had child labour laws in place by 1890.
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The 'labour clauses' forming the other half of the bill were essentially a revival of Fox Maule's draft; children could work only in the morning or in the afternoon, but not both. There were two significant differences; the working day for children was reduced to six and a half hours, and the minimum age for factory work would be reduced to eight.