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State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago. ... New York, Rhode Island, and of course Hawaii, not a state until 1959 ...
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]
Felt, Jeremy P. Hostages of Fortune: Child Labor in New York State (1965) online; Felt, Jeremy P. "The child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act." Labor History 11.4 (1970): 467–481. Firkus, Angela. "At the Factory, on the Street, and in State Institutions: Child Workers of Kansas City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."
Founded in 1947, the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) has published numerous reports on the subject of labor, child labor, forced labor and forced child labor around the world. [15] [16] [17] Since 2009, [18] the Bureau has been issuing an updated List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor yearly. The report listed 122 ...
In the fiscal year 2024, the Department of Labor concluded 736 investigations uncovering child labor violations that affected 4,030 children and assessed employers more than $15.1 million in ...
The organization also monitors and evaluates public and private sector, non-government organizations, organizational research, and development institutions to eliminate child labor. [21] The Child Labor Coalition was founded in 1989. The Child Labor Coalition uses its Stop Child Labor campaign to promote the education and well-being of working ...
In fiscal year 2024, the agency said it found over 730 cases of child labor violations, which resulted in uncovering the illegal employment of 4,030 children – a 31% increase since 2019.
Dagenhart, 247 U.S. 251 (1918) 5 to 4 that the Keating-Owen Act of 1916 which prohibited child labor was unconstitutional, if the articles might never reach inter-state trade Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering , 41 S. Ct. 172 (1921) even after the Clayton Act 1914, a secondary boycott remained an unlawful restraint of trade.