Little boys, some as young as 6, spent their long days, not playing or studying, but sorting coal in dusty, loud, and dangerous conditions. Many of these breaker boys worked 10 hours a day, six days a week all for as little as 45 cents a day. Child labor was common in the United States in the 19th century. It took the compelling, heart breaking photographs of Lewis Hine and others to bring the harsh working conditions to light. Hine and his fellow Progressives wanted to end child labor. He knew photography would reveal the truth and teach and change the world. With his camera Hine showed people what life was like for immigrants, the poor, and the children working in mines, factories, and mills. In the words of an historian, the more than 7,000 photos Hine took of American children at work aroused public sentiment against child labor in a way that no printed page or public lecture could.

Product Description: In 1790 the first water-powered mill in America was run by children, some as young as 7 years old. They were paid pennies for a work day that might last more than 10 hours. As America grew, the children's plight grew worse. Exhausted by six-day work weeks and harsh conditions, millions of young workers had no time to play or go outdoors...read more

Product Description: Kids on Strike! tells the story of children who stood up for their rights against powerful company owners, from a "turn-out" in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1836 led by eleven-year-old Harriet Hanson to the dramatic strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts...read more

Briefly traces the life of Lewis Hine, school teacher and photographer, and explains how he became involved in documenting child labor conditions

Briefly traces the life of Lewis Hine, school teacher and photographer, and explains how he became involved in documenting child labor conditions

'In graphic novel format, tells the story of Mary 'Mother' Jones, a leading labor union and child labor activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s'--Provided by publisher.

A biography of the labor leader who grew up in Ireland, emigrated to the United States, lost her family to yellow fever, and helped the mistreated working class, from coal miners to child mill workers, achieve better working conditions in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions

Describes the various jobs which children performed during the early 1900s, the reasons for employment, working conditions, the efforts of reformers, and child labor today

A biography of the determined woman who worked to improve the lives of children, the poor, and adult workers

A biography of Mary Harris Jones, the union organizer who worked tirelessly for the rights of workers (view table of contents)

Combines biography and social history in an account of the life of an important labor leader, the history of child labor, and a dramatic protest against conditions in American factories.

Surveys the history of child labor and its abuses and examines what has been done to eliminate the exploitation of children at work

Retells, from the point of view of one of the participants, the story of Mother Jones' famous children's march in 1903 made to protest working conditions for children.