Labor and employment
By: David Haugen and Susan Musser, book editors
Series: Teen rights and freedoms
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780737764024
Subjects: Child labor; Employment; Law and legislation; Legal status, laws; Teenagers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Regulating child labor in the United States : an overview / Todd Postol; title: State and federal governments address child labor in different ways / Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, Timothy Brown, and Nancy Kubasek; title: Congress does not have the power to regulate child labor within states : the Supreme Court's decision / William R. Day; title: Congress does have the power to regulate child labor within states / Dissenting Opinion / Oliver Wendell Holmes; title: Congress should adopt a child labor amendment / Arthur Garfield Hays; title: Congress should not adopt a child labor amendment / Duncan U. Fletcher; title: Teenagers need to be protected from hazardous working environments / Committee on Environmental Health; title: Teenagers have a right to work / V. Nathaniel Ang; title: Child labor protections are outdated / Seymour Moskowitz; title: Lowering the minimum wage would increase teen employment / James Sherk; title: Increasing the minimum wage would not greatly increase teen unemployment / Heidi Shierholz; title: The struggle to find a first job : personal narrative / Danielle Wilson; title: Child farm workers should be held to the same regulations as other young workers / Human Rights Watch; title: Child farm workers should not be subject to unreasonable regulation / Rapid City Journal editorial board; title: Learning that hard work leads to a better life : personal narrative / Melissa Gonzalez; title: Children in reality television shows should be protected by labor laws / Dayna B. Royal.