The government saw a need to have public safety and standards, along with acceptable behavior in society. Laws were created from mistreating children and maximum work hours were set. The National Child Labor Committee had a minimum age set that children could begin working. The court case Muller v. Oregon established a limit to how many hours someone could work in a day, this passed in the courts in 1908. Florence Kelley, founded and organized The National Consumers League, in 1899 to protect women and child laborers. The nineteenth amendment was ratified in 1920, which gave women the right to vote. Laws that would end labor abuse, compensate employees for injuries, minimum wage and minimum age requirements were set, and provide factories to
