LAD # 29

Keating-Owen Child labor act of 1916, after the census revealed that at least 2 million underage children worked in jobs a national movement to end child labor ensued. To limit work hours and more strictly enforce child labor laws this act was passed in a hopes of doing such things. One of the most effective pushes for this to happen came from Charles Dickens and his book Oliver Twist which was widely popular. However this act was later ruled unconstitutional because it overstepped the power of Congress in interstate commerce.