"It Will Be Our Job to Make Them Workers": Child Labor and Youth Employment in Postwar America.

The article looks at programs and policies related to child labor and youth employment in the United States in the decades after 1945. The author argues that an earlier focus on protection of children and youth in the labor market was transformed into a focus on cooperating with private companies to get youths into jobs. Topics include Mobilization for Youth, a youth jobs program that was part of the 1960s War on Poverty, and the National Child Labor Committee.