Outcome
The outcome of the movement for child labor laws took time. There was the failed amendment Congress attempted to adopt in 1924, but it could not be ratified by the state legislators. Then President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act that limited many forms of child labor in 1938. However, the 1949 Fair Labor Standards Act amendment was the first time a law directly prohibited child labor. It took over 100 years from the first laws that limited child labor to inspire the federal government to create an all-out ban.
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Kratz, Jessie. “Unratified Amendments: Regulating Child Labor.” Pieces of History, March 8, 2023. https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2020/03/24/unratified-amendments-regulating-child-labor/.
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