Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This was put in place in 1916 to try to address and fix the problems going along with child labor. This bill would limit the amout of hours a child could work while on the job and would not allow certain products they made to go interstate. This bill stated and showed that over 1 million children worked in harsh conditions in their factory jobs across America as seen from the census of 1900. Different people including Lewis Hine would show these different abuses of children in photography and many other different methods including writing at any time during their job. But this act was declared unconstitutional in 1918 through the case Hammer vs. Dagenhart because it interupted the law preventing restrictions on interstate trade.
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