States and Child Labor

Excerpt from The States and Child Labor: Lists of States With Certain Restrictions as to Ages and Hours This pamphlet summarizes brieży the age and hour restrictions placed by the various State laws upon the employment of children under 16 in factories and stores and the age restrictions placed upon the employment of boys in mines. These regulations are of two types - labor laws, fixing minimum ages and maximum hours and prohibiting night work, and compulsory school-attendance laws, which constitute in effect prohibitions of employment during the hours when they require the attendance of children at school. The effect of the latter type of law upon the work of children is no less definite because it is indirect, and it is indeed recognized that the enforcement of a child-labor law is practically impossible without the assistance of a school-attendance law which keeps the child in school during the years when he is not legally permitted to be at work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.