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When a Photographer Turned His Focus on Social Injustice, It Helped Usher in the First Child Labor Laws

Lewis Hine didn’t consider his job as taking pictures; it was “detective work.” Sometimes gaining access with ruse and subterfuge, he captured stark images that touched hearts and changed minds

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-photographer-turned-focus-social-justice-helped-usher-first-child-labor-laws-180988833/

"West Side Studies: Boyhood and Lawlessness; The Neglected Girl" at PG contains some of Hine's photographs

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60116

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