Alabama Child Labor Act of 1919
- Title
- Alabama Child Labor Act of 1919
- Description
- This state law helped to regulate and restrict the employment of children in Alabama. It set age limits and barriers to determine the length of time children can work, along with the type of work they can do. At the time of its passage, there were many children working long hours in unsafe conditions. The act was a step forward in the protection of children and made the child labor laws in Alabama align more closely to the rest of the country.
- Date
- 1919-09-30
- Author
- Alabama. Legislature
- Subject
- Children
- Temporal Coverage
- Jim Crow Era
- Exclusion Era
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Progressive Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- World War I
- Document Type
- Legal Code
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bluebook Citation
- 1919 Ala. Laws 867-876
- Bibliographic Citation
- General Laws (and Joint Resolutions) of the Legislature of Alabama. The Brown Printing Company, 1919, p. 867-876.
- Title
- Alabama Child Labor Act of 1919
- Description
- This state law helped to regulate and restrict the employment of children in Alabama. It set age limits and barriers to determine the length of time children can work, along with the type of work they can do. At the time of its passage, there were many children working long hours in unsafe conditions. The act was a step forward in the protection of children and made the child labor laws in Alabama align more closely to the rest of the country.
- Date
- 1919-09-30
- Author
- Alabama. Legislature
- Subject
- Children
- Temporal Coverage
- Jim Crow Era
- Exclusion Era
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Progressive Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- World War I
- Document Type
- Legal Code
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bluebook Citation
- 1919 Ala. Laws 867-876
- Bibliographic Citation
- General Laws (and Joint Resolutions) of the Legislature of Alabama. The Brown Printing Company, 1919, p. 867-876.