CULTIVATING INJUSTICE IN THE RICHEST FIELDS HOW U.S. LABOR LAW LEAVES MIGRANT CHILD WORKERS UNPROTECTED ON THE AMERICAN FARM

摘要

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) ushered in significant reforms for the American workforce, most notably introducing protections for a vulnerable group: child laborers. Since its inception, however, the FLSA has permitted children who laboron U.S. farms to do so under safety standards disparate to those that protect child laborers in other industries. With only negligible improvementsin the nearly eighty years since its passage, this Note proposes that this double standard for child farmworkers has survived through subsequent revisions of the Act due to zealous opposition from agriculturalists.