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Federal regulation of child labor, unlike that passed in early nineteenth-century England did not materialize until the New Deal of the 1930s. The present paper examines, using anecdotal and empirical evidence, the motives underlying the passage of depression-based child labor legislation embodied in the Senate vote on the Fair Labor Standards Act. The authors' study, which utilizes both dichotomous and trichotomous probit models of the vote, finds evidence that there were critical and dominant private, as opposed to public, interests behind the restrictions that the act placed on child labor and the exemptions that it established. Copyright 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers