The National Child Labor Committee, an early proponent of children's rights in the United States, hired photographer Lewis Hine in 1908. He documented the conditions of working children at the time, which helped to create popular support for laws restsricting child labor.
Knights of Labor ended child labor.
Liberals
never
Communist Labor Party of America ended in 1920.
Child labor
child labor
It has not ended, it still happens.
In a way yes, most people (at the time) didn't believe child labor was a problem or even existed. His photographs help show people was companies are doing to the young.
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Wrote book about child labor and conditions they faced. Had photographs of children on the job. people saw this book and took it to government. Gov eventualy passed child labor laws! :)
The Fair Labor Act was passed in the late 1930's, but efforts to end child labor were most aggressive in the early 1900's. The great depression was instrumental in ending child labor, only because adults were competing against children for jobs as unskilled laborers.