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Keating–Owens Act
U.S. child labor law of 1916 that set a minimum age of 16 for mine workers.
- Dates
- 1916
- Also known as
- Keating-Owens Child Labor Act
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enacted by
- U.S. Congress 1916 Scholarship & press 1
influenced by
- Lewis Hine Scholarship & press 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 1916 Keating–Owens Act
- 1916 U.S. Congress signed into law Keating–Owens Act
Proof 1 source
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Teaching With Documents: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
Scholarship & press
By 1916, Congress passed the Keating-Owens Act that established the following child labor standards: a minimum age of 14 for workers in manufacturing and 16 for workers in mining
Hine's images of working children stirred America's conscience and helped change the nation's labor laws.
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