Lawmakers didn’t address the issue of child labor until 1867, when they limited the hours children could work in factories. Thus, Vermont became the last New England state to regulate child labor.

Child labor laws have been protecting Indiana children since the signing of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. When industrialization grew in the late 1800s, factories and mines needed more and ...

In the 1800s, the capitalists justified the exploitation of child labor on the grounds that it would “prevent the habitual idleness and degeneracy” and teach “habits of industry,” as one ...

A young Alabama boy born in the late 1800s and nicknamed Shorpy is one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to abolish child labor at the beginning of the 20th century.