{"id":83425,"date":"2023-07-08T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=83425"},"modified":"2023-07-07T22:26:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T02:26:19","slug":"iowa-votes-to-re-impose-child-labour-in-ways-that-violate-federal-labour-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/07\/08\/iowa-votes-to-re-impose-child-labour-in-ways-that-violate-federal-labour-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa votes to re-impose child labour in ways that violate federal labour laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Bray<\/a> covers the breathless excitement of national media covering recent changes to Iowa labour laws:<\/p>\n

Suddenly, though, this<\/em> message is all over social media:<\/p>\n

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These messages are not exactly false, and not entirely true. They take note of a real development, but strip away all the limits and caveats to fake up the creation of a 21st-century Upton Sinclair novel. But the effects<\/em> of this successful legislation \u2014 this is where it gets complicated.<\/p>\n

Start here<\/a> (or here<\/a>) with Iowa Senate File 542: signed into law in May, took effect on July 1<\/a>. A bunch of the first-glance shocking details are more complicated than the outrage-farming Twitter takes suggest: 16 year-olds can serve alcohol in restaurants, with at least two adults to supervise, but not in bars; 15 year-olds can work on assembly lines in school-based work training programs, with parental permission; teenagers can work until 11 p.m. in the summer<\/em>, but not during the school year. Allowing a 16 year-old coffee shop waitress to bring you a beer strikes me as … not the end of the world?<\/p>\n

But all of those details aside, the new Iowa law expands child labor (while ending some earlier measures allowing even younger workers to do a few jobs like migrant farm labor), and will, in fact, put 14 year-olds to work in what will look a great deal like adult settings. So red state legislatures are expanding child labor at the moment they’re banning gender mutila\u2014 uh, gender-affirming medical care<\/em> for teenagers, and making that latter choice on the highly defensible grounds that teenagers lack the maturity to make decisions like that. So a 15 year-old working in a factory lacks the maturity to make adult decisions, is where we end up when we put all of this together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Bray covers the breathless excitement of national media covering recent changes to Iowa labour laws: Suddenly, though, this message is all over social media: These messages are not exactly false, and not entirely true. They take note of a real development, but strip away all the limits and caveats to fake up the creation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,84,9,53,13],"tags":[374,254,719,95],"class_list":["post-83425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government","category-law","category-politics","category-usa","tag-children","tag-gender","tag-iowa","tag-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lHz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83429,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83425\/revisions\/83429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}