child labour

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Lewis W. Hine: photograph of an overseer and child workers in the Yazoo City Yarn Mills

boy at Turkey Knob Mine

How the Progressive era changed child labour in the U.S.

Children hauling coal up the slope of an English mine; from an engraving of the 1840s.

See illustrator Joel Millerchip commissioned by Parliament to commemorate the Factory Act of 1833 with a banner, speaking of an event leading to its passage

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How the Progressive era changed child labour in the U.S.

How the Progressive era changed child labour in the U.S.

Learn more about the history of child labour in the United States.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

See illustrator Joel Millerchip commissioned by Parliament to commemorate the Factory Act of 1833 with a banner, speaking of an event leading to its passage

See illustrator Joel Millerchip commissioned by Parliament to commemorate the Factory Act of 1833 with a banner, speaking of an event leading to its passage

Listen to illustrator Joel Millerchip discussing the passage of Great Britain's 1833...

Video: © UK Parliament Education Service (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

Lewis W. Hine: photograph of an overseer and child workers in the Yazoo City Yarn Mills

Lewis W. Hine: photograph of an overseer and child workers in the Yazoo City Yarn Mills

Overseer supervising a girl (about 13 years old) operating a bobbin-winding machine...

National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (LC-DIG-nclc-02093)

boy at Turkey Knob Mine

boy at Turkey Knob Mine

Boy employed by the Turkey Knob Mine, MacDonald, West Virginia, 1908, photographed...

National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (LC-DIG-nclc-01068)

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child labour

Young boys working in a thread-spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-nclc-01581)

Children hauling coal up the slope of an English mine; from an engraving of the 1840s.

Children hauling coal up the slope of an English mine; from an engraving of the 1840s.

Wellcome Collection, London (CC0 1.0 Public Domain)

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