A good colleague and friend of mine, professor Deborah Levison at the University of Minnesota, has spent more than 20 years studying child labor around the world. She’s working on a book about ...

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Child exploitation in business started well before the Industrial Revolution but, 100 years ago, labor unions and progressive Democrats compelled Congress to enact worker protections many of us ...

Child labor has never been a particularly pretty part of society, but during the industrial revolution ... This eight-year-old girl, working at a nearby cranberry farm that same year, was also ...

They found that two-thirds of the pottery vessels were made by children as young as seven and eight years old, indicating that child labor helped ... see in the Industrial Revolution in Europe ...

The origins of the holiday — springing from Industrial Revolution-era clashes between ... One of those protections, laws against child labor adopted during the first half of the 20th century ...