Kids at work - Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labour (Photo Art Ebook).pdf

pdf / English / 1994 / Clarion Books / 120 pages / 11 MB

Photobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his own work as illustrations. Hines's photographs of children at work were so devastating that they convinced the American people that Congress must pass child labor laws.

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 – 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.