The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act was created to address the cruel system of child labor and prevent children from having to work in brutal conditions. It attempted to stop the trade of products made through child labor (specifically from children between the ages of 14 and 16) in order to achieve improved work life for these children. For factories, shops, and canneries, products could not be made if they were made by a child 14 or younger, and for other workplaces, products could not be sold if children under 16 worked more than 8 hours per day.
Although this law had good intentions, it was negative because allowed the government to control what products companies could sell, which took away much of their power. What is worse, this act did not take away the system of child labor, so while children may have had slightly improved working conditions, child labor had not disappeared at all.
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| Photo by Muckraker Lewis Hines reveals the dangerous conditions children faced in factories, as it pictures two young boys standing on machinery. |
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| Photo by Muckraker Lewis Hines shows two young girls working laboriously in a field. |
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| Photo by Muckraker Lewis Hines pictures a young girl inside of a factory where she is forced to work, and she does not look too happy about being there. |
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