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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMother Jones: The Photos That Helped End Child Labor in the United States
Breaker boys who worked in Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Company, South Pittston, Pennsylvania
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/10/kids-coal-mines-lewis-hines-photos
Lewis Hine sometimes went undercover to capture images of kids at work.
By Mark Murrmann | Sat Oct. 3, 2015 6:00 AM EDT
In the early 1900s, Lewis Hine left his job as a schoolteacher to work as a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, investigating and documenting child labor in the United States. As a sociologist, Hine was an early believer in the power of photography to document work conditions and help bring about change. He traveled the country, going to fields, factories, and minessometimes working undercoverto take pictures of kids as young as four years old being put to work.
Partly as a result of Hine's work (as well as that of Mary Harris Jones, who Mother Jones is named after), Congress passed the Keating-Owens Child Labor Act in 1916. It established child labor standards, including a a minimum age (14 years old for factories, and 16 years old for mines) and an eight-hour workday. It also barred kids under the age of 16 from working overnight. However, the Keating-Owens Act was later ruled unconstitutional, and lasting reform to federal child labor laws didn't come until the New Deal.
In 2004, retired social worker Joe Manning set out to see what had happened to as many of the kids in Hine's photos as he could find. He's documented his findingsshowing the lives of hundreds of subjectson his website, MorningsOnMapleStreet.com.
Many more great photos at link!
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Mother Jones: The Photos That Helped End Child Labor in the United States (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Oct 2015
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tblue37
(65,336 posts)1. My grandfather might be in that photo. I have never seen a pic of him that young, but he lived
in Pittston and worked in the mines. I did find one pic of him at 18, guiding a coal laden donkey from the mine. (He worked the mines starting at age 13.)
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)2. And republicans seem to want to take us back to this
Even some blue dogs seem to want to. TPP my ass.
ornotna
(10,799 posts)3. Lewis Wickes Hine took many photos of child laborers.
Shorpy Higginbotham was one of them.
http://www.shorpy.com/shorpy
louis c
(8,652 posts)4. And Is There any Wonder Why We Need Unions?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)5. Republicans want to go back to this era, as do some Democrats.