Child labor in America: the epic legal struggle to protect children

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 Hammer v. Dagenhart

Taxing profits of companies using child labor: Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company

Congress proposes the "Children's Amendment"

The great depression and renewed fight over the child labor amendment

The Fair Labor Standards Act and final victory in U.S. v. Darby Lumber

Contemporary child labor issues

Postscript: those truly stupid child labor laws

Chronology of events

States ratifying the proposed 1924 Child Labor Amendment

Cases cited

Notes

Bibliography

Index.