As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine's early 20th century photographs, which helped ...

A version of this story first published on Sept. 3, 2018, with the headline “The searing photos that helped end child labor in America.” He arrived at the coal mines, textile mills and ...

(AP Photo) EDITOR’S NOTE ... “Little children working,” the visitor replied. Child labor might have shocked that outsider, but it was all too commonplace then across urban, industrial ...

Based on this work, the National Child Labor Committee, which advocated for child labor laws, hired Hine to document the living and working conditions of American children. By the late 19th ...

A Missouri senator has called on the U.S. Department of Labor to investigate Tyson Foods after a whistleblower accused the company of illegal child labor practices.

“You don’t want American workers competing with countries that use forced and child labor,” Feingold said. “I worry that we’re going to see more products made with child and forced labor ...

For Marcos Cux — and thousands of other migrant children — working dangerous jobs that violate child-labor laws is the only American dream ... and had taken a photo of the boy’s mangled ...

(Getty/HUM Images/Universal Images Group) This article is part of a series from the Center for American Progress exposing how the sweeping Project 2025 policy agenda would harm all Americans.

The children were hired through Staff Management Solutions, which was fined $125,000 for the child labor allegations, according to the Labor Department. The agreement with JBS USA, based in ...

The state of Massachusetts reached a settlement with three franchisees for violating the state’s child labor laws. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced the state cited Cafua ...

Labor Day was officially established and signed into law by President Grover Cleveland in 1894 to recognize the contributions of American workers ... and the abolishment of child labor. Smithsonian ...

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