child labor laws
Minor employment regulations
Child labor laws are regulations restricting or prohibiting the employment of minors, typically setting minimum ages for work, limiting hours, and banning hazardous occupations.
In the U.S., federal child labor laws emerged in the early twentieth century after decades of reform efforts against factory and mine work by children.
These laws vary by jurisdiction and often include exceptions for agricultural work or family businesses: The restaurant was cited for child labor law violations.
- sweatshopsExploitative manufacturing facilities
- factory floorsIndustrial production workspaces
- minimum wageLowest lawful hourly rate
- UNICEFGlobal youth relief organization
- Human Rights WatchAdvocacy group tracking abuses
overtime pay · fair wages · work permits · working papers · age restrictions · school attendance · Industrial Revolution · young hands · newsboy cap · Great Depression · education access · poverty reduction · hazardous occupations · family farms · mandatory reporting · workplace safety · advocacy campaigns · abolition movements
- social causesfeminism, charity, environmentalism, volunteering, pacifism
- Youth Jobsteen workers, summer jobs, part-time jobs, first job, babysitters
- child labordebt bondage, hazardous work, hazardous occupations, factory work, domestic work
- child protectionsafeguarding, protection laws, mandatory reporting, abuse prevention, protective custody
- labor lawlabour law, worker rights, bargaining rights, employment law, work contracts
- children's rightschildren's rights, right to education, parental care, custody rights, education rights
child labor lawschild exploitation
Harmful use of minors
child labor · sweatshop labor · child trafficking · deregulation · indentured servitude