Child labor might have shocked that outsider, but it was all too commonplace then across urban, industrial America (and on farms ... and unhealthy jobs. In 1900, out of 100,000 workers in textile ...

They advocated for and were instrumental in securing passage of nascent child labor laws in the region during the early 1900s. But because state laws were perfunctory at best and lacked uniformity ...

Child labor protections in America are being challenged at the state ... Illegally Employed in Dangerous Meat-Packing Plant Jobs By 1900, more than 1.75 million American children under the age ...

Among the most heartfelt goals and proudest achievements of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was the eradication of child labor. In 1933, in signing a textile industry code that outlawed the ...

Here’s something we didn’t think we’d be talking about in 2023: child labor. But, here we are. Since 2018, there’s been a 69% increase in children working illegally, according to the ...

A series of investigative reports over the last year has revealed that underage children, most of them migrants from Central America ... rollbacks on child labor protections, allowing minors ...

Child labor is back. The Labor Department’s wage and hour division recorded a 37 percent increase in 2022 in the number of minors employed in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ...

Comes amid disturbing rise in child labor abuses in U.S. meat processing facilities. Once considered a dark chapter in America’s past, child labor is making a grim resurgence—this time in the ...

Here’s something we didn’t think we’d be talking about in 2023: child labor. But, here we are ... We want to hear it. Leave us a voice message at 508-U-B-SMART, and your submission may ...

and in factories — making products for some of the best-known American brands. Today my colleague, Hannah Dreier, on the failures that have led to a crisis in child labor and now that it’s ...