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New England Unions condemn Child Labor
New England condemns child labor
New England unions said that children should be able to have free time and time for recreational activities. Also, the children shouldn't have to work from morning until night. If being in a factory all day this might put the children at a health risk. -
First Child labor law
First Child Labor law
This is a law that Massachusetts passed, children had to go to school 3 months a year minimum. This only allowed the children to work 9 months out of the year. -
U.S. States limit children work days
U.S. states limit children work daysMassuchessetts only let children work 10 hours a day. This wasn't common inforced throughout the world. This very inconsistently inforced -
Labor movement urges minimum age law
Labor movement urges minimum age law
Men began to set a law that the minimum age to work was 14 years old. This was healthier for the children working in the factories. -
Newly formed AFL supports state minimum age law
newly formed AFL supports minimum age law
The first national convention proposed and enforced the minimum age of 14 to be working, This was now enforced in many more states. The convention said that children need time for free time and play. -
New York Union wins state reform
New York union states reform
Samulel Gompers was the leader and he wanted stop children being exposed to cigarette tenements. This was very bad for the health of he children. The children were very young and were being exposed to tobacco which could hurt their health -
Compulsary Education Act
Compulsary Education Act
This law was formed to see the how factories were running and if they were using the proper safety. This was also formed to see if any of the factories were disobeying the Child labor law. Inspectors gave bad reports about the factories. This caused the Compulsary Education Act to be passed saying children must got to school a minimum of 4 months per year -
Democrats adopt union recomendation
Democrats adopt union recomendationThe Democratice party set out to make the minimum age of working in factories to 15 years old. This was due to the cigarette making in the factories killing many children. -
New federal law sanctions state violations.
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New federal law sanctions state violations</a>The first child labor law says that if moving goods across a state line, no minimum age laws can be broken. This is saying that if the child is under 15 than the child can't move the goods -
First attempt to gain federal regulation laws
first attempt to gain federal regulation laws
This is where congress is giving the rights to the governent to control the making of the child labor laws. This gave the government freedom to make decisions on the minimum age to be employed as a child. -
Federal purchasing law passes
Federal purchasing law passes
This said that if an underaged worker makes the goods, the U.S. government will not buy the goods. This could possibly put out alot of businesses due to the employees working in the factories. Most factories during this time had younger age employees, and due to this act some of them shut down due to the lack of business. -
New federal law sanctions growers
New federal law sanctions growers
The sugar act said that if the worker doing the labor on a sugar cane plantation was under age then they could not recieve payments for the goods. This hurt the sugar plantations a lot causing the owners to find new workers. -
Federal regulation of child labor acheived in Fair labor Standard Act
Federal regulation of child labor
This law made it possible for the minimum age laws to be monitored by Federal government. This also limited the hours that could be worked per day. Sometimes this hurt the business for the plantation owners or Factory owners. -
Fair labor standards act
Fair Labor Standard Act
This was also regulated by U.S. Labor Department, and it was that if children were employed they had to be pair minimum wage. This also made it where a child had to have a permit with them if working at the time. If the child didn't have a permit showing their age then the business could get in trouble. -
Child Labor Law Video
