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How did the Keating–Owen Child Labor Act affect the welfare of children in 1916?

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The Keating-Owen Act of 1916 was the first labor law that applied to children. The law prohibited shipments between states or overseas of goods and products from any factory, shop or cannery that employed children under 14 years old, and any mine that employed children under 16 years old.

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