LAD #29: Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

Summary: The Act was passed in 1916, but the journey had started earlier with the proposal of Albert Beveridge to fight child labor by using the government's ability to regulate interstate commerce. Robert Owen and Edward Keating sponsored this Act, which banned the sale of products from

-mines that employed children under 16
-factories that employed children under 14
-businesses that made children under 16 work more than eight hours a day

The Act was very effective until judicial review declared it an overstepping of boundaries in 1918, in the Supreme Court case "Hammer Vs. Dagenhart"