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Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs that were taken during times such as the Progressive Era and the Great Depression, which captured the result of young children working in harsh conditions, played a role in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.
The Gilded Age plutocracy came under harsh attack from the Social Gospel preachers and reformers in the Progressive Era who became involved with issues of child labor, compulsory elementary education and the protection of women from exploitation in factories.
The New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics and Other Workingmen condemn child labor. [3] 1836 Massachusetts: Massachusetts creates the first state child labor law where children under 15 working in factories have to attend school for at least 3 months per year. [3] 1836 Trade unions
Children's work and welfare, 1780-1890 (Cambridge UP. 1995.) Humphries, Jane. Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2011). Lichtenstein, Matty R. "Agents of reform: Child labor and the origins of the welfare state" British Journal of Sociology (2024) 75#4 pp.668-670. Nardinelli, Clark.
‘The Gilded Age’ on HBO offers a fresh perspective of women’s roles during the late 19th century. But Meredith Clark writes that the history of the time period is far different than what is ...
According to ILO minimum age convention (C138) of 1973, child labour refers to any work performed by children under the age of 12, non-light work done by children aged 12–14, and hazardous work done by children aged 15–17. Light work was defined, under this convention, as any work that does not harm a child's health and development, and ...
Its original goals were to encourage the formation of trade unions and to obtain legislation, such as prohibition of child labor, a national eight-hour workday, and exclusion of Chinese and other foreign contract workers. [33] [34] Strikes organized by labor unions became routine events by the 1880s. There were 37,000 strikes between 1881 and 1905.
HBO’s new series “The Gilded Age” takes a deep dive into the era of 1882 New York City at a time of heightened prosperity, industrial growth and an internal clash amid society as “new ...