Child labor

By josephmariner

  • Start of child labor in Britian

    18 percent of all american workers were under 16.

  • Over 25% of south cotton mills were under the age of 15

    15

  • National Child Labor Committee formsAggressive national campaign for federal child labor law reform begins

    1904 National Child Labor Committee forms
    Aggressive national campaign for federal child labor law reform begins

  • 1916 New federal law sanctions state violators

    First federal child labor law prohibits movement of goods across state lines if minimum age laws are violated (law in effect only until 1918, when it’s declared unconstitutional, then revised, passed, and declared unconstitutional again)

  • 1924 First attempt to gain federal regulation fails

    Congress passes a constitutional amendment giving the federal government authority to regulate child labor, but too few states ratify it and it never takes effect

  • 1938 Federal regulation of child labor achieved in Fair Labor Standards Act