Corporations and Child Labor

A Review of Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker

July 24th, 2025: The chicken nugget became a staple in the American household and fast-food

Thu Jul 24 2025

U.S. DOL obtains order to force Los Angeles-area meat processor, staffing agency to give up $327,000 in profits from oppressive child labor

June 25th, 2024: The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment in a federal court

Wed Jun 26 2024

Shareholders demand McDonald’s and Wendy’s tackle child labor problems.

May 14th, 2024: Citing work by The Washington Post, shareholders are asking the companies for a

Tue May 14 2024

USDOL Press Release: DOL Fines Children Employed Illegally in Dangerous Jobs, Obtains $4.8M in Wages, Damages for Poultry Industry Workers in California

May 8th, 2024: Investigation finds 14-year-old children using razor-sharp deboning

Wed May 8 2024

USDOL Press Release: Tennessee Cleaning Firm Fined $649,000 in Child Labor Penalties; Kids, as Young as 13, Cleaned Killing Floor and Machinery

May 8th, 2024: Investigations found 24 children, some just 13 years old, doing dangerous work in

Wed May 8 2024

Seven Child Labor Best Practices for Employers from U.S. DOL

From the U.S. Department of Labor…. Train Management Train supervisors and managers on child

Fri Apr 26 2024

“Oakland Popeyes operator to pay huge sum to feds after allegedly hiring kids as young as 13”

February 8th, 2024: Oakland Popeyes operator to pay huge sum to feds after allegedly hiring kids as

Thu Feb 8 2024

The New York Times Magazine tells the riveting story of 14-year-old poultry worker Marcos and the traumatic injury he suffered

October 10th, 2023: Marcos was maimed while working the overnight cleaning shift at a Perdue

Tue Oct 10 2023

Opinion: Revisiting American Exceptionalism in Light of Child Labor Scandals

August 18th, 2023: In the collective American mind, stories of labor rights abuses normally take

Fri Aug 18 2023

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