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Download full textLieberman, Abbie; Loewenberg, Aaron; Love, Ivy; Robertson, Cassandra; Tesfai, Lul – New America, 2021
From February to April, New America conducted over 30 interviews with experts, care providers, and union representatives, focusing on three states. This report outlines key considerations for improving care worker job quality through organizing. We also include case studies on care worker organizing in California, Illinois, Washington, and the…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care Occupations, Home Health Aides, Caregiver Attitudes
Department of Labor, Washington, DC. – 1971
This report explains the applicability of the Fair Labor Standards Act to child labor. Statistics are provided on violations which occurred during fiscal year 1970, and individual cases are described. This document is a revision of ED 048 498. (BH)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Federal Legislation, Labor Legislation, Minimum Wage
Peer reviewedRatner, Ronnie Steinberg – International Labour Review, 1980
The author focuses on laws governing maximum working hours, explaining how their coverage became restricted to women and children and how organized labor showed renewed interest in universal hour laws during the Depression. She advances three hypotheses to explain how laws that once were protective became restrictive. (CT)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Discriminatory Legislation, Employed Women, Labor Conditions
Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1970
This report describes violations of Federal child labor laws. Included are statistics on illegal employment in 1969, according to region, age, school grade, and occupation. This document is a revision of ED 034 026. (BH)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Employment Statistics, Federal Legislation, Labor Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1991
A joint hearing was held to consider S. 600, a U.S. Senate bill designed to help educate the public about federal child labor laws and strengthen enforcement of child labor laws through an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum presided. The hearings were called because of sporadic enforcement of inadequate…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children
Tucker, Lee – 2000
Agricultural work is the most hazardous and grueling area of employment open to U.S. children and is also the least protected. Adolescent farmworkers labor under more dangerous conditions than their peers working in nonagricultural settings and also face persistent wage exploitation and fraud. These adolescent workers are protected less under U.S.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agricultural Laborers, Agriculture, Child Health
