Child Labor History Essay

The photo to the left shows this 5 year old boy working in a oyster plant in 1911. Everyday he has to run barefoot on cracked shells to retrieve buckets of shellfish to shuck. That company hired many children of his age to shuck oyster for as little as 30 cents a day, approximately $7 in today's currency. Because of this story and many other stories we now have child labor laws. As a result these laws were made. In 1836 Massachusetts limits children under 15 working in factories to attend at least 3 months of school a year. By 1842 Massachusetts limits children to work 10 hours a day. Then in 1876 the Working Men's Party asked to band the employment of children under the age of 14. In 1938 minimum age hours of work for children regulated by federal law. 1974 came out with law called the Mary Ellen Case. 1878 was the year they signed a paper making child labor illegal.
(simple)1878 was the year they signed a paper making child labor illegal. 1936 Walsh Healey Act states U.S. government will not purchase goods made by under age children. 1892 Democratic party adopts platform plank based on union recommendation to ban factory employment for children under the age of 15. 1881 only 7 states had laws against hiring children under the age of 12. 1916 passes a law that aid children under the age of 14 could not work in mills ,factories, canneries. On the other hand there were laws that were not passed. June 1924 child labor amendment passes congress, but fails to be ratified by the united states. September 1916 keating owen child labor act is passed by congress, but is declared unconstitutional in 1918. 1937 was the second attempt to ratify constitutional amendment giving federal government authority to regulate child labor fails. 1964 aggressive national campaign for federal child labor law reforms begins. 1937 Sugar act makes sugar beet growers ineligible for benefits payments. No laws apply to children who work on their parents