Child labor provisions of Fair Labor Standards Act affect more people than any other aspect of the law. Latest changes in the law are reported regarding: (1) farm employment, (2) nonfarm work, (3) other hazardous jobs, (4) minimum wage, (5) overtime pay, and (6) State laws. (MW)

Explores tensions between universalistic and relativistic approaches in the establishment of standards and strategies designed to prevent or overcome the abuse of children's capacity to work. Tensions are discussed within the context of the International Labour Office's proposed new international convention on the prohibition and elimination of…

This volume of essays and activities is written for use in the eighth grade course "United States and New York State History." The volume follows the chronology from the Civil War to the present, emphasizing child labor during those years. The essays are intended for teachers but can be mastered by many students. The activities focus on…

This report examines the issue of child labor and makes recommendations for changes in New York's child labor laws. It reviews the relationship of child labor to education, the relationship of child labor to social development, child labor and workplace safety, and the role of young workers in the economy. It concludes that simply relaxing child…

The U.S. agricultural labor market is already, in many respects, a binational one, and it will become increasingly one in which workers who are born in Mexico will follow a variety of worklife trajectories that take them back and forth between both countries. Recognition of this reality has important implications for policy development and program…