For a lot of human history, the solution to the pr...  ..., the solution to the problem of poverty-stricken children , no matter how young they were, was to find them...  ...i. The idea of a training ship for disadvantaged children wasn’t new in Italy. In 1883, Genoa had est...

A hundred years ago, before OSHA, MSHA, the UMWA,...  ...undred years ago, before OSHA, MSHA, the UMWA, or child labor laws had any real power, children in the mining areas of West Virginia and Pennsylv...  ...needed the money, and the operators wanted cheap laborers . The boys...

What's better than child slavery? Child slavery for art! Just kidding. While desig...  ...g. While designer Lucas Maassen employs child labor to create his furniture/artwork, it's c...  ...ds could be so profitable?...

How the KKK helped get children out of the factories and into the classroom. M...  ...have to go back to the 1820s, when about half the laborers in America's cotton mils were children under the age of 15. Adults had a serious hankeri...  .... After all, employers could ge...

Lewis Hine took this family photo in 1909. The ca...  ...) helps in mill, sticks on bobbins. Four smallest children not working yet. The mother said she earns $4.50...  ...he mother said she earns $4.50 a week and all the children earn $4.50 a week. Husband died and left her with...  ...n $4.50 a week. Husband d...

(vimeo link) This animation was produced by Q...  ...uced by Qais Sarhan for his graduation project on child labor at the University of Leeds. -via Nag on the Lake

Photographer Lewis Hine {wiki} spent a decade docu...  ...pher Lewis Hine {wiki} spent a decade documenting child workers for the National Child Labor Committee in the early 20th century. His famous p...  ...20th century. His famous photos helped to outlaw child labor in Americ...

Portraits of child labor in the United States between 1908 and 1912, as do...