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title: Good child-labor legislation promotes the health and welfare of children
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/good-child-labor-legislation-maps-1942/
description: 'Text-and-map sheet: two maps of the United States show state minimum ages for employment and the progress of ratification of the child-labor amendment.'
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# Good child-labor legislation promotes the health and welfare of children

Text-and-map sheet: two maps of the United States show state minimum ages for employment and the progress of ratification of the child-labor amendment, as of May 1, 1942. A stamp and a handwritten '15' update the figures. The technique is faint: the headline's general benefit claim sits over data maps.

## 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

```
GOOD CHILD-LABOR LEGISLATION PROMOTES
THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF CHILDREN
A basic 16-year minimum age for employment in establishments producing goods for Interstate commerce is provided by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, but only 15 [handwritten over struck-out 14] States have a basic 16-year minimum by State law
Through ratification of the child-labor amendment to the Constitution, 28 States have taken action to enable Congress to provide national minimum standards for children employed in intrastate as well as interstate industries
BASIC MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT UNDER STATE LAW
(Applies to factories and stores; often to all gainful occupations except farm work and domestic service)
RATIFICATION PROGRESS OF THE CHILD-LABOR AMENDMENT
16 years
15 years
14 years
No age minimum
Exemptions limited to time outside school hours (in Massachusetts exemptions under certain conditions permitted during school hours)
Exemptions not limited to time outside school hours
May 1, 1942
Ratified
Not yet ratified
May 1, 1942
Ratification by 8 more States is necessary to make the amendment part of the Constitution
[stamp:] Since this map was published LOUISIANA has established a basic minimum age of 16.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR—CHILDREN'S BUREAU
[imprint:] (CB 42-607)
```

State abbreviations on the maps are not transcribed.

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