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Kim Reynolds, gouverneure de l'Iowa, a signé un texte abrogeant certaines protections en matière de droit du travail des mineurs. Stephen Maturen / Getty Images via AFP

July 9, 2023

Aux États‑Unis, de moins en moins de restrictions au travail des mineurs

John A. Fliter, Kansas State University and Betsy Wood, Bard College

Aux États-Unis, certains gouverneurs assouplissent depuis quelques mois les textes encadrant le travail des mineurs, allant parfois même à l'encontre des normes fédérales.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law in 2023 that lets children under 16 work without official permission from their parents. AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo

June 26, 2023

States are weakening their child labor restrictions nearly 8 decades after the US government took kids out of the workforce

John A. Fliter, Kansas State University and Betsy Wood, Bard College

Some of the biggest changes to child labor laws are in Iowa and Arkansas.

These boys working in a Georgia cotton mill were photographed in 1909. Lewis Hine/The National Child Labor Committee Collection via Library of Congress

August 27, 2020

Abolishing child labor took the specter of ‘white slavery’ and the job market’s near collapse during the Great Depression

Betsy Wood, Hudson County Community College

More than a fifth of US children were working in 1900, and many Americans saw nothing wrong with that. It took decades of activism and court battles plus economic upheaval to change course.

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