Josie (6 years old), Bertha (6 years old) and Sophie (10 years old) worked regularly at the Maggioni Canning Company. Work began at 4 AM and the three would make from $9 to $15 a week. Sophie would do six pots of oyster a day and her mother who also worked with her said "She don't go to school. Works all the time."
Through such photos, Lewis Hine documented the harsh working conditions borne by thousands of children, who were sent to work soon after they could walk, and were paid based on how many buckets of oysters they shucked daily.
He covered around 50,000 miles a year, photographing children from Chicago to Florida working in coal mines and factories.
These photos helped to raise an outcry against child labor and made the American public become widely aware of the scope of the problem. This resulted in the establishment of organizations such as the National Child Labor Committee, in 1904, which led the fight against child labor.
And now the criminal Fascist GQP wants to take US back to that!
Resist in every way you can.
@NoctisEqui @SrRochardBunson Political rhetoric these days is so disappointing.
My friends on the right are convinced the CA legislature is secretly trying to legalize infanticide. (Look up the poorly-written AB 2223 from last year. Seriously, I keep hearing about this a year later. They're *convinced*.)
Then on the left we have this equally bizarre notion that the right is trying to get kids out of school and back into the coal mines. Or <whatever the nonsense outrage is today>.
The inane misspelling of the other party is a sure sign we found the bottom of the barrel.
People: we have actual disagreements in the actual Overton window that matter. Please let's focus on those, yes?
