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The movement also lobbied both state and national law-making and enforcement bodies for adequate enforcement of existing state laws and for new, uniform national legislation necessary to address the problem of child labor across state lines. Among the related reforms championed by the movement to end child labor were innovations in national regulation of labor conditions, the minimum wage, worker's compensation insurance, uniform standards for compulsory education, school food programs, shorter work days, regulation of health and safety conditions in the workplace, and many others that most Americans take for granted today.
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