LAD #29: Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act dint allow the sales of goods that were produced by children across the Sate border, it also limited the number of hours that a child could work. According to a Census near the beginning of the 20th century, about 2 million boys and girls ranging for small children to teens were working in America.  Lewis Hines took picture of children working in hopes to get the hours out to the pubic. With eh statistics and the pictures the Muckrakers were driven to end child labor. This act banned the sale of products form any mine, shop, cannery, or factory that mistreated children with long hours, outrageous times, and simply too young to work. Congress eventually passed the act which was enforced by Woodrow Wilson. In the Supreme Court case of Hammer v Dagenhart the act was found to be unconstitutional. It wasn't until theFair Standards Act of 1938, that an effect labor act came about (still enforced today).