On the Child Labor Front
| Autor: | Florence Taylor |
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| Rok vydání: | 1948 |
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| Zdroj: | Social Service Review. 22:20-33 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5404 0037-7961 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/636655 |
| Popis: | from the beginning of organized activities to ban child labor in the early 1900's—enactment of restrictive laws to prevent early or harmful employment and promotion of constructive measures to increase educational opportunities. Now that World War II has been over for two years and domestic affairs have been getting their share of attention, it is a good time to take stock of current progress—or lack of it—toward these two objectives. Several facts stand out clearly when one looks at the present child labor picture. Employed school-age children are not so numerous as they were during the war years, but they are more than twice as numerous as they were in 1940; highschool enrolments continue to be one million lower than in 1940; expected progress by a substantial group of states in 1947 from a fourteento a sixteen-year age limit for full-time employment did not materialize; unexpected action by Congress seriously weakening the federal child labor program did materialize; violations and accidents continue to be numerous because of the number of children employed and because some employers have believed that the general letdown after the war would include a letdown in enforcement of child labor laws. The evidence which supports these facts is substantial. |
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