On July 1, 1847, the Factories Act of 1847 in Britain went into effect. This law limited hours in textile mills for women and children under 18 to 10 per day. It also lowered the weekly hours to 63. The idea here was that by...
child labor
Long time LGM friend Michael Hiltzik notes how Republicans are racing ahead with their dreams of returning child labor to the nation. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has discovered a problem.
January 1 always brings a raft of new laws. Five states have new child labor laws. Blue states think kids should probably be studying. Red states see kids as cheap.
I've long wondered about these institutions popular in the West that define themselves as some sort of nostalgic pre-Mao China providing The Real Thing to the Whites. Like, what exactly is going on here? Well, it seems that one thing that is going on is...
Under Trump, this report would never even happen, so it's good that the Department of Labor has filed a report about the serious problem with forced and child labor in.
Will it surprise you that Iowa's pro-child labor law is a complete disaster? No, I don't suppose it will. Iowa businesses have been openly disregarding federal rules about when and.
The Louisiana legislature, truly run by rogues, has decided to allow children the freedom to work without BIG GOVERNMENT mandated lunch breaks. A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits...
There is a bill before the Connecticut state legislature for the state to ratify the Child Labor Amendment. As this is something I have advocated for over a long period.
I am 100% on board with this strategy: The union representing meatpacking workers employed by Tony Downs Foods in Madelia, Minn., has a new and historic proposal in response to.
When we think about the poultry industry, it tends to focus on the terrible treatment of the animals. After all, that's been where the publicity is, given that it is the animal rights people who push this stuff. Fair enough, they are the ones exposing...
I have spent a long time now discussing the total failure of corporate self-governance and the need for legal consequences for corporations through their supply chains when they break the.
Children are so small and supple, they make the best workers on dangerous jobs. And what's a few dead Guatemalan kids...... The New York Times spoke with more than 100.