The holiday's history is as colorful as it is long ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Rutgers University Ph.D. candidate Julia Bowes talks about the increase in children in the work force in the 1900s and how it affected businesses and ...

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 ...

In late March 2025, claims (archived) circulated online that the state of Florida was debating lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs formerly held by immigrants. However, while it is true that ...

As Indiana’s part-time legislature returned to the Statehouse in January, a new law allowed another group of Hoosiers to spend more time in the workforce. Those workers are teens, some as young as 14, ...