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Anderson, Elisabeth Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State (Princeton University Press, 2021) Horn, Pamela. Children's work and welfare, 1780-1890 (Cambridge UP. 1995.) Humphries, Jane. Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2011).
Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, ...
The Sadler Report, also known as the Report of the Select Committee on Factory Children's Labour (Parliamentary Papers 1831–32, volume XV) or "the report of Mr Sadler's Committee," [a] was a report written in 1832 by Michael Sadler, the chairman of a UK parliamentary committee considering a bill that limited the hours of work of children in ...
The World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization (ILO)-sanctioned holiday first launched in 2002 [1] aiming to raise awareness and activism to prevent child labour. It was spurred by ratifications of ILO Convention No. 138 [ 2 ] on the minimum age for employment and ILO Convention No. 182 [ 3 ] on the worst forms of ...
Child labor in the United States was a common phenomenon across the economy in the 19th century. Outside agriculture, it gradually declined in the early 20th century, except in the South which added children in textile and other industries. Child labor remained common in the agricultural sector until compulsory school laws were enacted by the ...
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 ...
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.
The 2008 book Child Labour in a Globalized World used the phrase to call attention to the role of debt bondage in child labor. [25] Sara Dillon of Suffolk University Law School used the phrase "What about the children" in her 2009 book, International Children's Rights , to focus on child-labor program conditions. [ 26 ]