How Photography Helped to End Child Labor in America

The haunting photographs of Lewis Hine

In the year 2023, we apparently have a child labor problem in the United States. Over the last few months, the topic has popped up in the news a number of times:

• Migrant children increasingly find themselves working illegally due to governments’ and businesses’ “chain of willful ignorance.” Twelve and thirteen-year-olds find themselves making auto parts,…