Keywords
child labor, child labor protection, symposium, children at work, workplace
Abstract
There has been a recent and well-documented increase in unlawful child labor in the United States and a simultaneous organized effort to weaken state child labor protections. In reaction to these converging trends – along with disturbing media coverage of children injured and killed at work, the White House, U.S. Department of Labor, child advocates, labor rights’ organizers and others have mobilized to respond. This Symposium, Children at Work, was convened to focus our collective attention on this critical and emerging issue. Once considered well-settled, questions of when children work and the types of work they should do are again contested. The contributors to this Issue helpfully examine these questions and others about children in the American workplace.
Recommended Citation
Annie B. Smith,
Foreword,
77 Ark. L. Rev.
(2024).
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/alr/vol77/iss2/13