Child labor in America : the epic legal struggle to protect children /

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"Most Americans today do not give child labor laws much thought. If we think of it at all, we see it as a concern over there or in the distant past. But child labor was a prominent policy issue in American politics for nearly a century. Children worked ever since the first settlers arrived, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fliter, John A., 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Temas:
Child labor > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Child labor > United States > History.
Enfants > Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
LAW > Child Advocacy.
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
HISTORY > United States > 19th century.
Child labor
Child labor > Law and legislation
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From public good to moral evil: state laws and child labor in the 1800s
  • Divided, we fall: the Beveridge-Parsons bill
  • Regulating child labor as interstate commerce: the Keating-Owen act and Hammer v. Dagenhart
  • Taxing profits of companies using child labor: Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company
  • Congress proposes the "Children's Amendment"
  • The Great Depression and renewed fight over the child labor amendment
  • The Fair Labor Standards Act and final victory in United States v. Darby Lumber
  • Contemporary child labor issues
  • Postscript: those truly stupid child labor laws
  • Chronology of events
  • States ratifying the proposed 1924 Child Labor Amendment
  • Cases cited.

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