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Children's Crusades
March led by Mother Jones started from Pennsylviania to New York. Banner reading the following like "We Want Time to Play" or "We Want to go to School" while this event had no legisative impact, it was a people's demonstration against child labor. Please Note: All years on this timeline are accurate; the exact date and month if not verified will be noted as 1 Jan. -
National Child Labor Committee
National Child Labor Committe This event is signifcant because it demonstrates a national effort to solve the problem of child labor. Progressives learned early in their struggle is that they needed to influence legislation and government. -
Enter Lewis Hines!
Lewis Hines was hired as a investigative photographer to bring out the darknss the dangers of child labor. NCLC needed a powerful method to convince rationale citizens against child labor. -
US Children Bureau created!
Headed by Julia Lathrop whose appointmen was supported by NCLC. The event is significant because this is the first federal governemnt intervention regarding child labor. In 1913 this bureau was moved into the US Department of Labor. -
NCLC Child Labor Bulletin 3 'Making Human Junk'
The project demonstrate a single notion that child labor was not a function of industrailization, but a product for the United States. Parents were promised high wages for the employment of their children, but instead they got uneducated and unhappy citizens who would run the affairs of the United States. -
Keating-Owen Act of 1916
US Congress prohibted interstate commerce of good produced by factories that employed children 14 and 16 years old. -
Child Labor Tax Law
This law regulated child employment by imposing a 10% tax on net annual profits. This law was legitmatize because Congress held their power to tax within the borders of the United States and define a child under the age of 16 years. -
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co
For more information on Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. US Supreme Court ruled 1919 Child Labor Tax Law unconsitutional. The court upheld the notion that federal government had no authority to interefere with the labor contract (a relationship between empolyer and employee) because both parties are equal figures. -
The Walsh-Healy Act of 1936
This law prohibted the use of child labor with companies that adhired to a government contract. This event is significant because it shows that the federal government is taking action against child labor through law. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
Signed by President Roosevelt this act placed limits on many forms of child labor. Also ratified in 1949 ends child labor in the industrail sector.
