Child workers in Bangladeshi sweatshops making designer clothing spurred activism in the U.S. against such exploitation. Garnering less attention were the loopholes in U.S. federal law allowing ...

Thousands of children stayed home and helped their families turn out clothing for sweatshop manufacturers. Others packed flowers in ill-ventilated tenements. One 7-year-old explained that “I ...

Talk show host Dr. Phil told “The View” on Monday that some children arriving at the border were being sent into “prostitution and sweatshops,” citing a conversation he had … ...

The moral scourge of child labor was supposedly eradicated in America more than 100 years ago. Red states are bringing it back in the name of parental rights.

The Employment of Children in Factories. Share full article. Oct. 1, 1871. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from October 1, 1871, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

We can—and must—have an economy without children in factories. But to stop child labor, we have to prioritize both children and labor. Many of the children profiled in recent coverage were ...

Eighty five years ago, the United States outlawed child abuse in sweatshop labor--a scourge that Franklin Roosevelt called "this ancient atrocity." So, it was a shock in 2022 to learn that an ...

Church of the First Born Lamb of God, a Mormon fundamentalist cult headed by Ervil LeBaron and responsible for killings, is detailed by his children in a new docuseries.

As a child, Sheikh worked up to 20 hours a day in a sweatshop in Nepal stitching fabric that would become clothes sold to consumers unaware of their true cost. “Ninety percent of my brain, all ...

As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine's early 20th century photographs, which helped child labor laws get passed, are worth our attention once again.

T he United Nations said on Wednesday that around 138 million children around the world are still working in factories and fields. Given the slow pace of progress, the organisation has warned that ...