The Photos That Shocked America:
The Horrors of Child Labor Exposed by Lewis Hine
Carlos Guerrero
Junior Division
Individual Website
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“There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.” -Lewis Hine, 1909
Header Photo Credit: Ten Year Old Spinner in N. Carolina Cotton Mill, 1908, National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.