As a result, the United States is now witnessing scenes reminiscent of the works of Victorian and ... and the Progressive Era movement that helped create federal child labor laws.” ...

He told of the efforts made to restrict the employment of small children, and among other things said: "The real menace of child labor comes from the moral obliquity of a great era of prosperity.

In the Victorian era, unwed motherhood was shameful and economically ... It’s the ultimate outsourcing of, well, labor. The business is so sleazy that it’s illegal in China.

It was common to see a chimney sweep at work during the Victorian era, more common still to see a child undertaking this ... numbers were employed as casual labor.

Thought by many to be a relic of a bygone era, child labor catapulted back into the national headlines recently with several high-profile stories. First, a Labor Department investigation found ...

They argue that critics are conjuring dramatic images of industrial-era child labor practices when, in reality, all these bills do is remove a few of the barriers that keep some teenagers from ...