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
- Date
- 1942
- 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
- Labor, Health, Home front
- 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-907 (NAID 514412).
Text on the object
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.
