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title: Child-labor standards for the nation's children
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/child-labor-standards-1941/
description: 'Black-and-white poster: a girl and a boy with schoolbooks walk toward a school building under an arch marked ''To School''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Child-labor standards for the nation's children, 1941 US poster: Black-and-white poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/child-labor-standards-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/child-labor-standards-1941.jpg)

# Child-labor standards for the nation's children

Black-and-white poster: a girl and a boy with schoolbooks walk toward a school building under an arch marked 'To School', between side roads signed 'To full-time work in industrialized agriculture' and 'To full-time work in industry and commerce'. The technique is faint here; the slogans 'for the Nation's children' and 'School is their full-time job' carry the appeal, followed by plain statement of the legal rule.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
CHILD-LABOR STANDARDS
FOR THE NATION'S CHILDREN
No Child Under 16 Years of Age
Should Leave School for Gainful Employment
To School
TO FULL-TIME WORK
IN INDUSTRIALIZED
AGRICULTURE
TO FULL-TIME WORK
IN INDUSTRY
AND COMMERCE
School
Is Their Full-Time Job
A basic 16-year minimum age, applying to industrial work at any time
and to agricultural work during periods of required school attendance, is the
standard set by the child-labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act,
administered by the Children's Bureau, which apply to producers of goods for
shipment in interstate commerce.
Children working for their parents in agriculture or other occupations
except manufacturing and mining are exempt from these provisions.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
CHILDREN'S BUREAU
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-20406
```

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