Every day Amir in Sialkot, Pakistan swaps his school clothes for work clothes and school books for machines like this one. At the age of 8 he started working, at 12 he insists he will never stop. He ...

In many villages across rural India, childhood is often shaped by forces far beyond a child’s control. Poverty, debt, and social inequality can quietly erase the simplest dreams, school, play, or even ...

Child labor violations in the United States soared in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, according to data released by the Labor Department on Thursday, rising to their highest level in nearly two decades.

The low-paying fast food industry has driven the surge in violations of child labor laws, with teens working longer and later than permitted under federal law. (iStock/halbergman) One of the largest ...

We might have worked on different sets, for different directors, in different eras, but every child actor bears the same recognizable wounds. By Alison Pill A new round of tariff carve-outs has raised ...

From public good to moral evil: state laws and child labor in the 1800s -- Divided, we fall: the Beveridge-Parsons bill -- Regulating child labor as interstate commerce: the Keating-Owen act and ...

Children in the postmedieval Dutch workforce worked so hard that their spines became worn and deformed, with some children affected before they even had a chance to lose their baby teeth, a new study ...

The U.S. Department of Labor filed a federal lawsuit against Oklahoma nonprofit coffee chain Not Your Average Joe and its founder, Tim Herbel, alleging violations involving child labor, employee ...

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The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of the ...