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Gilded Age
Children working to earn $1-$3 a week children work for 60-70 hour a week in hazardous conditions. The problem that caused children to work. Then saying that effects on the children working and how it's wrong. (Child Labor) -
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The Pennsylvania Strike Freedom
Mary Harris Jones went to Pennsylvania to strike, Children's Bureau as a federal information clearing house, President Wilson ran a campaign of New Freedom a group of progressive reformers. The people that was making this stop they made huge events to have people see how bad child labor is for the children. (Child Labor Activists) -
Children's Bureau
Children's Bureau transferred to the department of labor upon the latter's creation in 1913. The law they passed to stop the way children are getting paided and treated. (Child Labor Activists) -
Keating Owen Act
Congress passes the Keating Owen Act, Which bans the interstate sale of any article produced with child labor. Passing the Keating Owen Act will change the way children work and the way they get paided and will show a huge positive change in their family. (Child Labor Activists) -
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Revenue Act/ Child labor tax law
Congress passes the revenue act and child labor tax law, child labor was cut to nearly half of what it had been in 1910, Bailey vs. Drexel Furiture. The act cut down a huge amount of child labor from the way children was being treated. (Child labor legislative efforts) -
Constitutional Amendment
Congress adopts a constitutional amendment barring child labor and sends the amendment out to be ratified by the state legislatures. Not enough states ratify the child labor amendments for it to become a law. They are bringing this problem to the state and are seeing will they do something big and change it. (Stopchildlabor.org) -
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Walsh-Healey Act
The Walsh-Healey Act sets safety standards, minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor provisions on all federal contracts. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Fair Labor standards Act which includes putting his limits on many forms of child labor. Their plan to make it better for kids to work and get paided more money for working. (Stopchildlabor.org) -
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Labor Standards Act/ Minimum Age Conventions
Fair Labor Standards Act directly prohibits child labor for the first time, The international laws known as the Minimum age convention it sets out to abolish child labor among school-aged children. The cat that gave an age when they can work and made a difference on how children are being treated. (Stopcholdlabor.org)
