Sunday, February 9, 2014

LAD #29

The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

  • use the government's role to regulate interstate commerce to fight against child labor
  • banned the sale of products from any factory that...
    •  employed children younger than 14
    • employed children under 16
    • any factory that made children under 16 work more than eight hours
  • effective until it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the 1918 case Hammer vs. Dagenhar

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