LAD/Blog #28: Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This act was created with the intent to improve working conditions for children. For example children's working hours were long and brutal, so this act shortened the amount children could work. This act also banned the sale of products produced by companies with underage children in their employ. Children could no longer work for over 8 hours a day and children under 14 were not allowed to work and children under 16 couldn't work in the mines. Business were also able to be punished if they didn't follow these standards. The horrific conditions that children were forced to work under, is what helped spark this progressive movement..
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