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.

In the 1800s, the capitalists ... The number of minors involved in child labor law violations skyrocketed nearly 400 percent between 2015 and 2022, according to the same EPI study, from 1,012 to ...

The story of the child labor resurgence, as told in the New York Times, is that the Trump and Biden administrations’ crackdowns on undocumented family migration at the southern border have ...

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 ...

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 20 th century. Henry Sharp ...