Protecting Youth At Work: Health, Safety, and Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States
Author: Committee on the Health and Safety Implications of Child Labor
Date Published: 1998
This document examines the positive and negative consequences of working, for children and adolescents in the United States. The committee behind it reviewed the available data on the extent to which children and adolescents work and on the number and types of work-related injuries and illnesses sustained by children and adolescents, as well as how working during school affects education, development, and behavior. It then examines whether the laws and regulations that govern labor by children and adolescents in the United States are adequate to ensure the health and safety for young people at work.
Date Published: 1998
This document examines the positive and negative consequences of working, for children and adolescents in the United States. The committee behind it reviewed the available data on the extent to which children and adolescents work and on the number and types of work-related injuries and illnesses sustained by children and adolescents, as well as how working during school affects education, development, and behavior. It then examines whether the laws and regulations that govern labor by children and adolescents in the United States are adequate to ensure the health and safety for young people at work.
