The National Child Labor Committee, or NCLC, is a private, non-profit organization in the United States that serves as a leading proponent for the national child labor reform movement. Its mission is to promote "the rights, awareness, dignity, well-being and education of children and youth as they relate to work and working."
NCLC, headquartered on Broadway in Manhattan, New York, is administered by a board of directors that is currently chaired by Betsy Brand.
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The National Child Labor Committee, an early proponent of children's rights in the United States, hired photographer Lewis Hine in 1908. He documented the conditions of working children at the time, which helped to create popular support for laws restsricting child labor.
The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) fought with the help of Lewis Wikes Hine, a famous photographer, to fight child labor. They sent Hine to many of places who had supported child labor, and Hine would take pictures of how young the kids were and the horrible working conditions. They would take those pictures and make them into flyers hanging them up everywhere for everyone to see. The NCLC and Hine helped people learn the problems of child labor helping them see how wrong it was. With the help Of the NCLC and Hine child labor was soon banished by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.
Jewish Labor Committee was created in 1934.
Farm Labor Organizing Committee was created in 1967.
Verna Posever Curtis has written: 'Photography and reform' -- subject(s): Catalogs, Child labor, History, Milwaukee Art Museum, National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Photograph collections, Pictorial works 'Photographic memory' -- subject(s): Photograph collections, Street photography, Library of Congress, Photograph albums, Documentary photography
One action is that they promoted laws against child labor.
Labour Representation Committee was created in 1900.
The power to pass a national minimum wage law.
SInce the 1930's we have succeeded in eliminating ILLEGAL child labor and assuring that kids who work do so lawfully, within uniform, national regs.
Promote laws against child labor Lobby for a national income tax Support limits on working hours
The web address of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee is: www.wlcac.org