A young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair ...

Since 2021, many states have been considering or have passed legislation to weaken child labor laws, while a smaller number have considered or have been strengthening and updating the laws on their ...

Workers at General Motors occupied factories for 44 days in Flint, controlling irreplaceable auto body dies. Michigan’s ...

Since 2021, many states have been considering or have passed legislation to weaken child labor laws, while a smaller number have considered or have been strengthening and updating the laws on their ...

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 ...

The low-paying fast food industry has driven the surge in violations of child labor laws, with teens working longer and later than permitted under federal law. (iStock/halbergman) One of the largest ...

New laws taking effect on January 1 in four states would crack down on companies using child labor laws or violating already-existing laws, while one state loosened its child labor laws. Several ...

A bill that would loosen child labor restrictions in Florida narrowly advanced in the state legislature Tuesday, with Gov. Ron DeSantis signaling strong support for the measure as part of his broader ...

Greenville native Jimmy Donaldson is teaming up with one of the nation’s largest philanthropies to make a difference in child ...

Eastern Iowa laborers are disappointed with the state's lobbying for looser child labor restrictions. At a roundtable hosted at the IBEW 405 Union Hall in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday night, ...