National Child Labor Committee

Alliance, and the Anti-Saloon League. These groups were already united on many issues such as labor rights, women’s rights, minimum wage laws, etc. Thus, in 1900, a reform group known as the “New York Committee of Fifteen” conducted undercover vice investigations and released their first report with the title “The Social Evil.” A similar group with ties to the New York Anti-Saloon League, known as the “Committee of Fourteen,” did a comparable investigation of prostitution three years later.…

protections, there are "nine core international human rights treaties. Each of the treaties was monitored by a committee of experts in implementing the treaty provisions by member states. Some of the treaties were supplemented by optional protocols" to deal with specialized concerns (United Nations, 2010). An emerging aspect of human rights is that international human rights law applies to multinational organizations and private-sector companies (Fariss, 2014). Some scholars argue that the…

droppings became part of processed food people eat everyday. Initially, only food regulations resulted, not what Sinclair had hoped to accomplish, however at the turn of the century, the effects of his realism came into action. By 1904, the National Child Labor Committee worked to protect children from the dangers of the workplace and by 1916, most states had worker compensation laws that provided injured workers compensation (Hart and Bower 199). Both of these reforms reflect the spread…

together and formed the Women’s Joint Congressional Committee and lobbied for more federal-level social welfare legislation and programs. Together, this committee was successful in establishing social reform programs such as the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921, which gave federal funds to states for health programs for women and children. As well as bring to light the need for educational and industrial reform, especially when it came to children and child labor laws. (Synonym) With the ability to…

Thailand; Woman for Sale Thailand is well known as the one of best sex travel destination in the world. Since the Vietnam War, commercialized sex in Thailand was a small industry then began to flourish in 1970. During the 1990s it is estimated the number of children and women engaged in sex industry was not less than 400 thousand. Prostitution is tolerated, partly regulated operates clandestinely in many parts of the country and has gained international notoriety among travellers from many…

opposed the amendment. So why wouldn’t these five? Josh Israel spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) who wrote the amendment, about what some of the Senators who apposed the amendment said, “A Senator asserted yesterday that trafficking programs have been wasteful and duplicative”…

The League of Nations was borne out of collective desire of the nations around the world to prevent war, promote world peace and stability. Not to mention, the unprecedented destruction and death caused by World War I spurred the victorious nations into establishing a system of collective security in the form of League of Nations. The primary motive of the League of Nations was to prevent/deter or address any aggression by a state through collective response from other states, thereby ensuring…

By the time World War II came along more men were needed to fight in the war therefore women had to take over doing certain jobs that were supposed to just be jobs for men. In 1942 “the National War Labor board urged people employers to make adjustments which equalize wage or salary rates paid to females with the rates paid to males for comparable quality and quantity of work on the same or similar operations” (Beth Rowen). This was ignored by…

The Spanish-American War begins after the USS Maine is blown up in Havana. The wae ends when the Treaty of Paris is signed, causing SPain to give up control of Cuba- now independent The population manages to gorw to 75 million after immigration and child brith increase. The next major disaster, Galveston Hurricane, leaves 6,000 to 8,000 dead The President, Willia Mckinely is assinated by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchrist. Theodore Roosevel takes over. For the first time, the U. S stock market…

In Missouri State University’s Public Affairs mission, three notions are constantly being reinforced, known as the three pillars of Public Affairs: ethical leadership, cultural competence, and community engagement. These beliefs encourage students to think forward about the world that surrounds them, and allows them to step up as leaders. While looking towards the future with these concepts in mind, we can take inspiration from the past and apply that to today’s world. The passion the leaders…