LAD #29

In the 1900s roughly 2 million children were found working long hours for jobs that paid very little. The Keating-Owen law regulated child labor and made it illegal for a company to sell products when the workers there were under a specific age. For example, children working in factories, shops, or canneries under age 14 and miners under the age of 16. Wilson passed the law and it remained in place until the government named it unconstitutional during the Bailey vs. Drexel Furniture Company court case over the idea that Congress cannot regulate trade. Although the law was removed from existence, the wrongdoings of child labor continued to be argued and regulated over the coming years.