These photos ended child labor in the US
Child labor was widely practiced until a photographer showed the public what it looked like. This video is presented by CuriosityStream: Become a Video Lab member The 1900 US Federal Census revealed that 1. 75 million children under the age of 16, more than one in five, were gainfully employed. They worked all over the country in cotton mills, glass blowing factories, sardine canneries, farms, and even coal mines. In an effort to expose this expl
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