Not that the Vermont Legislature acted quickly. Lawmakers didn’t address the issue of child labor until 1867, when they limited the hours children could work in factories. Thus, Vermont became ...

A young Alabama boy born in the late 1800s and nicknamed Shorpy is one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to abolish child labor at the beginning of the 20 th century. Henry Sharp ...

Indiana House and Senate Republicans are passing new legislation to undo child labor ... of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. When industrialization grew in the late 1800s, factories and ...

But here, the barbaric practice of child labor, once thought to be consigned to the dustbin of history, at least in the advanced industrialized countries, is back. In the 1800s, the capitalists ...