Joshua Freeman, history professor at Queens College, explained the advent of child labor during the Industrial Revolution in England. He also discussed the Luddite movement and protests that ...

Child exploitation in business started well before the Industrial Revolution but, 100 years ago, labor unions and progressive Democrats compelled Congress to enact worker protections many of us ...

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Child labor has never been a particularly pretty part of society, but during the industrial revolution, the practice became even uglier than its earlier incarnations. Children were often put in ...

The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work." – Lewis Hine, 1908. The Industrial Age that occurred after the Civil War created a demand for labor and ...

A short cartoon on the dangers of child labor was screened last month at a fair in Juina, a small city in Mato Grosso state - a region where prosecutors say child workers are not seen as a problem ...