The Keating- Owen Child Labor Act sought to regulate child labor by making use of the ability of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. The act prohibited the sale of products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of fourteen, from any mine that employed children under the age of sixteen, and from any facility that had children under the age of sixteen working at night or for more than eight hours during the day. Although it was repealed by the Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart, it temporarily set a minimum work age and a maximum work day for children under sixteen.
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