First, a Labor Department investigation found more than 100 children between ... in securing passage of nascent child labor laws in the region during the early 1900s. But because state laws ...

“Children’s lives are on the line and there is no time ... mangled limbs and chemical burns.” JBS – The world’s largest meat processor paid $4 million in fines for child labor violations ...

160 million children, almost 1 in 10 worldwide, are engaged in child labor, with 80 million working in hazardous conditions in agriculture, mining, domestic labor, and other sectors. On tobacco ...

Meanwhile, some states are rolling back child labor regulations, with state policymakers arguing that such changes can provide parents with more flexibility in helping their kids get jobs.

Suddenly lawmakers in several states are rushing to relax child labor laws to ... the images of children in manufacturing and other dangerous work from the early 1900s? There is a reason our ...

Wurth is hopeful that with the national reckoning happening around child ... no violation to report, she notes. "That's why this labor law desperately needs to be updated," she say. "So at least ...

Among the most heartfelt goals and proudest achievements of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was the eradication of child labor ... outlawed the employment of children under 16 in sweatshops ...

fueling a resurgence in child labor not seen in a century, with children living far from their parents and working illegally in all 50 states. At slaughterhouses, it is no longer only Spanish ...

but those inspectors repeatedly failed to spot ongoing child labor violations, The Times reported in December. Auditors left factories in the afternoon, even though children are most often hired ...