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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-571 (NAID 514051).
Text on the object
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
