Introduction:
National Action Committee was formed for Children, an organization dedicated to the abolition of child labor, in 1904. Through the dissemination of information on the life and conditions of workers employed, as it helps to mobilize support popular for child labor laws at the state level. Often it combined with these laws with compulsory education laws, which aims to keep
children in school and out of the paid labor market until a certain age (usually 12 or 14 or 16 years.)
National Consumers League:
In 1916, the NCLC and the National Consumers League successfully lobbied the US Congress to pass the Keating-Owen, which was signed by President Woodrow Wilson Law. This is the first federal child labor law. However, the Supreme Court ruled in the United States by law two years later in the hammer against Dagenhart (1918), stating that the law violates paragraph trade through trade regulation within the state. In 1924, Congress tried to pass a constitutional amendment authorizing the National Child Labor Law. This measure has been blocked, and dropped in the final bill.
It took the Great Depression to end child labor at the national level. Adults can become very desperate for jobs that will work for equal pay payment for children. In 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards, which, among other things, the law imposes restrictions on many forms of child labor. However, work in 1938 provides for the protection of working children excludes the right agriculture. As a result, almost 500,000 children choose almost a quarter of the food currently produced in the United States.
In 1994, development of the Union State of Arkansas to work the child care initiative in child labor is prohibited vote, which was approved on voters.
Human rights organizations:
Human rights organizations have documented child labor in the United States. According to the petition 2009-2010, Human Rights Watch: "Hundreds of thousands of children work as agricultural laborers in the United States, often working 10 hours or more a day and often are exposed to dangerous pesticides pesticides, against high rates of injuries and deaths suffered in the five-time young workers to other rate. those long hours contribute to the alarming rates of abandonment. government statistics show that almost half of always finishing high school. According to the National safety Council, agriculture is the second most dangerous occupation in the United States. However, let current workers of child labor laws US children from the farm to work longer hours, at an age early, and more dangerous lower than other young people working conditions. at a time when children should be in other sectors 12 to be used, and can not work more than three hours on a school day, in agriculture, you can be children work at the age of 12 with limited hours, before and after school. "
