At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, fact

Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history,

Child labor law strikes most Americans as a fixture of the country’s legal landscape, involving issues settled in the distant past. But these laws, however se

In Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicycle. In Los Angeles, a 14-year-old boy repeatedly falls asleep i

A documentary account of child labor in America during the early 1900s and the role Lewis Hine played in the crusade against it.