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4 kwi 2024 · Child labour, a pervasive issue affecting an estimated 170 million children globally, casts a shadow over their innocence, stripping away childhood joys and replacing them with the burden of toil.
12 mar 2024 · From children carrying stacks of bricks of their heads in dusty kilns, to youngsters breathing in dangerous dust in gold mines, Lisa Kristine has photographed child labor around the world.
Below, take a look at the shocking Lewis Hine photographs that helped America finally take action to crack down on child labor, now a part of the U.S. National Archives collection:
25 sie 2021 · Photographer Lewis Hine captured the appalling child labor conditions of early 20th century United States in stark, history-making detail. Learn more about the documentary photographer who helped spur child labor reform.
The NCLC photographs, together with the captions, provide insight on the lives of working class families, with a particular focus on children and women. (For a contents summary, see Arrangement and Access.)
8 paź 2013 · This photo series, archived by the Library of Congress, shows what conditions were like for child laborers before child labor was largely eliminated in 1938.
22 lis 2019 · The oftentimes heartbreaking photos taken by Lewis Hine for the National Child Labor Committee from 1908 to 1924 demand we look more closely at the faces of young laborers and the conditions under which they worked, such as this young spinner in a Georgia cotton mill:
