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 ...

Lewis Hine died in poverty but his photos live on as a reminder of the horrors of child labor and, frankly, the dangers to all workers found in Industrial Age workplaces. These are just a few of his ...

A good colleague and friend of mine, professor Deborah Levison at the University of Minnesota, has spent more than 20 years studying child labor around the world. She’s working on a book about ...

Child labor has never been a particularly pretty part of society, but during the industrial revolution ... This eight-year-old girl, working at a nearby cranberry farm that same year, was also ...

The origins of the holiday — springing from Industrial Revolution-era clashes between ... One of those protections, laws against child labor adopted during the first half of the 20th century ...

The eight-hour workday, safe work conditions, and an end to child labor all came through union ... the answer is certainly yes. During the Industrial Revolution, workers toiled 14 hours a day ...