anti-child

Updated: May 9, 2025

This character of work for long hours is deleterious to a child, as are the employments in many branches of the garment trade or other industries, which labor is so openly condemned by those who have been interested in anti-child labor movements." For detailed particulars see that part of this work comprising "Great Fortunes from Public Franchises."

Myers Gustavus - History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I: Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times

In New England the workingmen's movement for equal citizenship was simultaneously a reaction against the factory system. To the cry for a Republican system of education was added an anti-child labor crusade.

Selig Perlman - A History of Trade Unionism in the United States