image by Lewis Hine, “A Little Spinner.” 1909 December 3, 1908. “A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her ‘sides’ like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that … Read More →
Tag Archives: child labor
Kinderarbeit.
Photographs by Lewis Hine dealing with child labor combined with a video showing child labor today.
Part of a series of posts.
Kinderarbeit.
image by Lewis Hine Harry McShane, 134 Broadway, Cincinnati. Sixteen years of age on June 29, 1908. Had his left arm pulled off near shoulder, and right leg broken through kneecap by being caught on belt of a machine in Spring Works factory [below] in … Read More →
The Hidden Face Of Globalization
image by Lewis Hine, 1911 Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co., South Pittston. January 1911. “Breaker boys,” or slate pickers, sat astride the breaker chutes, through which the coal roared, and picked out slate and other debris by hand. Boys as young … Read More →