The 19th century is often referred to as the “dark century” for child labor exploitation. In factories, children worked 13 to 15 hours a day, performing tasks that no machine could replicate.

The story of the child labor resurgence, as told in the New York Times, is that the Trump and Biden administrations’ crackdowns on undocumented family migration at the southern border have ...

A young textile worker in 1913. Over the course of the 19th century, the bulk of child labor jobs moved from the farm to the factory. And see the men at play. The New England poet Sarah Norcliffe ...

The Photographer Who Forced the U.S. to Confront Its Child Labor Problem Lewis Hine’s early 20th-century “photo stories” sparked meaningful legislative reform ...