A comprehensive history of the legal struggle over child labor in America, from the earliest state regulations, to the landmark Supreme Court decisions culminat

Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history,

"Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee, Section of Labor and Employment Law, American Bar Association."

Offering a contribution to the debates on child labor, this book presents child labor as a problem to which various branches of international law have made a re

An original examination of legislative clashes over the singular issue of the glass house boys, who performed menial tasks, received low wages, and had little t