LAD #23-Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This act was designed to help end child labor in the United States because it was a horrible evil and so therefore the sale of products manufactured by children in the United States was prohibited. Big businesses were furious of this new law as opposed to the old laissez faire policy they were used to. Children were cheap, replaceable labor and a dream come true for large corporations, but the evils were just too much horror. These children should have been in school, working way less hours and in much better conditions. Hammer v. Dagenhart ruled this law unconstituional so essentially this act failed as a result, but was a good first attempt to end child labor.
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