A factory in Tennessee is being forced to pay out close to $2 million after it was discovered to employ immigrant teenagers in "oppressive child labor." Ten children were found to be employed at the ...

The Department of Labor fined Morristown, Tennessee-based Tuff Torq $296,951 and secured a court order requiring it to disgorge $1.5 million—a month of profits—after a January inspection found 10 ...

Spindle boys in Georgia cotton mill. Photo by Lewis Hine. Undated. Since 2021, many states have been considering or have passed legislation to weaken child labor laws, while a smaller number have ...

A young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair ...