History for ready reference, Volume 7 : $b Recent history (1901 to 1910)Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson)
History
History for ready reference, Volume 7 : $b Recent history (1901 to 1910)
Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson)
History -- Dictionaries
In the next three years after the Bureau of Labor’s
compilation of child labor laws, great reforms in them were
brought about, as shown by comparison with the "Handbook 1908"
of "Child Labor Legislation" compiled by Josephine Goldmark
for the National Consumers’ League, and published originally
as a Supplement to the Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, May, 1908. Some statements from
this are given below:
"The age below which child labor is prohibited varies from
sixteen to ten years. The number of employments prohibited
also varies greatly—from all employment during school hours to
mine work only. … Eleven states prohibit work to the sixteenth
birthday in either mines or specific occupations injurious to
health, or both. These are, for mines, New York, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania (inside anthracite mines), Texas; for specific
occupations, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin;
for both, Illinois and Montana."
The fifteen year age limit is prescribed in only one State,
South Dakota, which forbids it in mines, factories, hotels,
laundries, theatres, bowling alleys, elevators, messenger
service, or places where liquors are sold.
The age limit of fourteen years is prescribed differently in
different States. With various qualifications, employment
below that age in factories, stores, offices, laundries,
hotels, theatres, bowling alleys, is prohibited in California,
Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri,
Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
In factories or stores it is forbidden in Connecticut,
Massachusetts, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, and
Washington.
In factories it is not permitted in Arkansas, Colorado,
Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey,
Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin.
In messenger service it is made unlawful in California, Idaho,
Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska,
New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington,
Wisconsin.
Children under this age are excluded from mines in Arkansas,
Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota,
Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
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