Tag: child labor
Posted in Children
Child Labor Loophole Let Employers Escape Injury Claims
In 1924, Maryland’s child labor laws contained a cruel loophole. Children could be working illegally. They could be injured on the job. And still, according…
Posted in U.S. Historical News
Scranton Hearing Reveals Fight Over Child Labor in the Mines
In the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania, where whole towns lived by the whistle of the mines, the question of a miner’s wage was never…
