Saturday, February 2, 2013

LAD #29 Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

The Keating-Owen act was passed in 1916 based upon Senator Albert Beveridge's proposal in 1906. Beveridge proposed, with the help of the government, to interfere and fight against child labor. This act was pushed on by Edward Keating and Robert Owen. It banned the sale of products form ANY factory that employed children that were younger than 14, or any children under the age of 16 that worked in a mine. It also wanted to ban the sale of products from factories that employed children under 16 that were working for more than 8 hours. The law was successfuly passed until 1918, when it was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court decision of Hammer v. Dagenhart. It was declared so because the court did not believe the federal government could interfere with interstate trade. This Act was a stepping stone for the Fair Labor Standards of 1938, which set standard laws for employment, and allowed laws for children to work.



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