The United States passed the first child labor law forbidding children younger than 16 from working in factories in the 1860s.

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The United States passed the first child labor law forbidding children younger than 16 from working in factories in the 1860s. ​

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The United States passed the first child labor law in 1836, but it only applied to children working in factories in Massachusetts. Many states passed similar laws in the following years, but it wasn't until the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 that a federal law was passed forbidding most children under 16 from working in factories.

The United States Passed the First Child Labor Law Forbidding