Tag: child labor
Posted in Children
Judge Tore Up the Summons After Learning Why This 14-Year-Old Was Working
In 1908, fourteen-year-old Harold Bothwick was not asking for much. He simply wanted to work. His widowed mother was struggling to support four children in…
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…
