Breakout session: Child Labor
Presenters:  Barbara Mathews and Lynn Manring

Shorter Hours for Women

The Census of Massachusetts: 1885, Volume II 

Nine and Ten Years Old- They can earn 40c. in a ten-hour day, but they cannot read.  

Lewis Hine information 
     

Kids at Work: Lewis Hind and the Crusade Against Child Labor     Photographs by Lewis Hine    Using the compelling black and white photographs Lewis Hine,  has chronicled the child labor movement in the United States. Hine became an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee in 1908, traveling across the country, photographing and collecting the horrifying tales associated with the use and abuse of child labor. His work was influential in changing child labor laws, and this photoessay gives children a unique glimpse into the past.