LAD #29: Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act limited the number of hours that a child could work and did not allow the sale of goods across the Sate border that were produced by child labor. A Census ranging from small children to teens showed that nearly 2 million girls and boys were working across America at the beginning of the 20th century. Muckrakers were driven to end child labor once they heard that stat. Lewis Hines took pictures of kids working in their dangerous conditions in order to get the horros out to the public. TheKeating-Owen Child Labor Act "banned the sale of products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14, from any mine that employed children under the age of 16, and from any facility that had children under the age of 16 work at night or for more than 8 hours during the day." Eventually being passed by Congress and instituted by Woodrow Wilson, the act was later found to be unconstitutional in the Supreme Court case of Hammer vs. Dagenhart. It was not until the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, an Act still in place today, was an effective labor act set into motion in the United States.

LAD #29: Keating-Owen Child Labor Ac