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Childrens rights

By bruce20
  • Hard labor

    Hard labor

    Children worked as endentured servants or as child slaves for little pay and under harsh circumstances
  • New England Association of Workmen

    Workmen in organization condem child labor
  • trade unions

    propose state minimun age laws for work. children under 15 working in factories have to attend school for three months a year.
  • time limits

    limits children to working 10 hours a day.
  • Working Men's Party

    Working Men's Party

    Proposes banning employment of children under age 14.
  • American federation of Labor

    Passes lawbanning children under 14 from all gainful employment.
  • Hull House

    First organization in U.S. to provide after school programs for children.
  • John Dewey

    John Dewey

    Children's rights activist. Emphasisies educational right's for children.
  • National Child Labor Committee

    Committee formed to abolish all child labor.
  • Fair labor Standards Act

    Fair labor Standards Act

    President Roosevelt signed act vputting limits on forms of child labor.
  • Child abuse reporting statutes

    First chils abuse reporting statutes.
  • Child custody statute

    First joint custoday statute in U.S. Right to both parents after divorce.
  • Child Labor deterrence Act

    Child Labor deterrence Act

    Prohibits importation of products produced by child labor.
  • Convention of the Rights of the Child

    Protection of child pertaining to sale of children, cild prostitution, and indecent internet acts.