Child labor laws in the United States

Source: http://www.stopchildlabor.org/USchildlabor/fact1.htm

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes child labor standards (as well as minimum wage, overtime pay, equal pay, whistle blower, and record keeping standards)

Minimum Age for Particularly Hazardous Work:

The minimum age for particularly hazardous work in agriculture was 16 years old, where as the particularly hazardous work in all other parts of the economy is age 18.  

Minimum Age for Non-hazardous Work:

In jobs that are not considered particularly hazardous, the FLSA( Fair Labor Standards Act ) sets the normal minimum age for employment in agriculture at 14 years old, whereas in every other industry the normal minimum age is 16 years.

Source: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

Upper Right - A general view of spinning room, Cornell Mill. Fall River, Massachusetts. Upper Right - A moment's glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year. Rhodes Mfg. Co. Lincolnton, North Carolina Bottom - Some children were to small they had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads to put back the empty bobbins. Bibb Mill No. 1. Macon, Georgia.

U.S. Child Labor, 1908-1920

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tY1gk6J6zc

Child Labor in U.S. History

Soure: http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html

Forms of American child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery. As industrialization moved workers from industrial and home workshops into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred. Factory owners viewed them as more manageable and less pricey. Growing opposition to child labor in the North caused many factories move to the South by 1900. States varied considerably in whether they had children labor standards. In the content of the enforcement. By then, American children worked in large numbers in mines, factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, and as newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddlers.

I feel that this is so sad that they slaved young children because they cost less and manageable. This shouldnt be this shouldnt even happen in the first place in U.S. Think that this happen no more in U.S and its over and not legal anymore.