We tend to think of child labor under harsh conditions as a problem in developing countries, or in this country a century ago. So it was a shock to see this headline in the last couple of days: ...
The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into an agreement with Perdue Farms Inc. and secured a separate agreement with temporary staffing agency Staff Management Solutions LLC and SMX LLC, ...
ACCOMAC, Va. — Perdue Farms will pay $4 million in restitution after a contractor company was accused of illegally hiring children to clean a processing facility on the Eastern Shore, per a release ...
Trained as a sociologist, Lewis Hine picked up a camera and trained it on the cheap labor performed by children in American factories and on farms. The exploitation shocked the public, Hine’s poetic ...
Downers Grove-based Hearthside Food Solutions has agreed to settle a child labor investigation by the Illinois Department of Labor and attorney general for $4.5 million. The state agencies opened a ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Boys who worked at Obear-Nestor Glass Co. in East St. Louis in a 1910 photograph by Lewis Hines, who was documenting child labor ...
Florida Sen. Jay Collins, R-Tampa, says his bill is simply “lining Florida up with federal law” on child labor. The federal law he’s referring to was passed in 1938. Credit: Photo via Jay ...