Heartbreaking Pictures Of American Child Laborers In The Early 1900s

For most of the 19th century into the early 20th century, children as young as five worked as shrimp pickers, factory workers and even in dangerous lumber yards.
In 1842, Massachusetts limited work days for children to 10 hours per day, but that was hardly doing them a favor.
A law was passed to enforce a minimum working age in 1916 and 1918, but those efforts were declared unconstitutional on both occasions.
Finally, the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938 enforced minimum working ages and hours under federal law and child labor was officially ended.
Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine captured the harsh conditions children endured in the early 1900s before strict labor laws. The images come from the Library Of Congress.
Sidney Ashcraft, 10, was a bundle carrier in Cincinnati in 1908.
These twin workers from Spartanburg, S.C. made 44 cents a day for their widowed mother.
This boy did not have an easy time making beds.
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