Child Laborers Demand Reform: Glass Factories Turn Dark
Lewis Hine's photographs of child laborers in the American South exposed the brutal reality of millions of young workers toiling in dangerous conditions, triggering a national reckoning that eventually dismantled the system. His images, taken between 1908 and 1917 for the National Child Labour Committee, turned abstract statistics about 2 million children into undeniable human suffering, fueling the legislative momentum needed to end child labor.
February 29, 1916
110 years ago
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