American Challenge With Child Protection Law in the Workplace

The law was the result of a year-long reformer's campaign not to allow excesses in children's work. Up to that time, children under the age of 16 worked in the textile industry, in mines and long-term and low-wage factories.

In 1918 The Supreme Court of the United States changed the law on protecting children in working relations, saying Congress had overcome its constitutional competencies. The convention tried two more times before the 1930 ' s to prevent the exploitation of children's work without success.

In 1938 Congress passed the Law on Rights Standards at Work. This law defined for the whole country the level of lower pay and the largest number of hours for a working day, thus resolving constitutional problems that had hampered forced implementation of laws for protecting children in working relations.