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Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor

by Russell Freedman · 1994

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Photobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his own work as illustrations. Hines's photographs of children at work were so devastating that they convinced the American people that Congress must pass child labor laws.

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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childrensyoung adultpicture books
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short · 112 pages

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