Child Labor in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child Labor in America write by William G. Whittaker. This book was released on 2004. Child Labor in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of child labour in America is long and, in some cases, unsavoury. It dates back to the founding of the United States. Traditionally, most children, except for the privileged few, had always worked -- either for their parents or for an outside employer. Through the years, child labour practices have changed -- and so have the benefits and risks associated with employment of children. In some respects, altered workplace technology has served to make work easier and less hazardous. At the same time, some processes and equipment have rendered the workplace more dangerous -- especially for the very young. Child labour first became a federal legislative issue at least as far back as 1906 with the introduction of the Beveridge proposal for regulation of the types of work in which children might be engaged. Although the 1906 legislation was not adopted, it led to extended study of the conditions under which children were employed or allowed to work and to a series of legislative proposals -- some approved, others defeated or overturned by the courts -- culminating in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938. The latter statute, amended periodically, remains the primary federal law dealing with the employment of children. Although providing a framework for regulation of child labour (and, in some cases, forbidding it entirely), the FLSA is not comprehensive, nor does it deal with all employment of children in precisely the same way. Generally speaking, work by young persons (under 18 years of age) in mines and factories is not allowed. What other types of work may be suitable (or especially hazardous) for persons under 18 years of age has been left to the discretion of the Secretary of Labour. Some types of work -- for example, some newspaper sales and delivery, theatrical (and related) employment -- fall beyond the scope of FLSA child labour requirements. Finally, a distinction has been made between employment in non-agricultural fields and in agriculture -- and, in the latter case, between work for a parent or guardian in an agricultural setting and commercial employment. This book sketches the early history of child labour regulation and reviews certain recent federal initiatives in that area and discusses child labour legislation.
The Meaning of Child Labor
The Meaning of Child Labor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Meaning of Child Labor write by Raymond Garfield Fuller. This book was released on 1922. The Meaning of Child Labor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Child Labor in America
Child Labor in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child Labor in America write by Chaim M. Rosenberg. This book was released on 2013-07-30. Child Labor in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed child labor was an evil that maimed the children, exploited the poor and suppressed adult wages. The child should be in school till age 16, they demanded, in order to become a good citizen. The battle for and against child labor was fought in the press as well as state and federal legislatures. Several federal efforts to ban child labor were struck down by the Supreme Court and an attempt to amend the Constitution to ban child labor failed to gain enough support. It took the Great Depression and New Deal legislation to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (and receive the support of the Supreme Court). This history of American child labor details the extent to which children worked in various industries, the debate over health and social effects, and the long battle with agricultural and industrial interests to curtail the practice.
Child Labor
Child Labor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child Labor write by Hugh D Hindman. This book was released on 2016-09-16. Child Labor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history, as witnessed by the many high-profile stories on child labor and sweatshops in the media today. This work considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor Committee investigators found it in major American industries and occupations, including coal mines, cotton textile mills, and sweatshops in the early 1900s. Finally, the concluding section integrates these findings and attempts to apply them to child labor problems in America and the rest of the world today.
Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution
Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution write by Clark Nardinelli. This book was released on 1990. Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
