Child laborer mini-smelter Arizona location and date unknown - 2013
by David Lee Guss
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Child laborer mini-smelter Arizona location and date unknown - 2013
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Miners work in a mini-smelter. The boy was employed at slave wages before child labor laws were enacted.
One of my favorite photographers is Lewis Wickes Hine who documented in the early 20th century the plight of children cruelly exploited in the workplace. His poignant photos were instrumental in the eventual passage of the Keating-Owen Act in 1916.
But the supreme Court found it unconstitutional. Only in 1938, "the Fair Labor Standards Act also known as Federal Wage and Hour Law was finally recognized by the United Stated federal government. This Act made it mandatory for employers to give children minimum wage of twenty-five cents an hour and a maximum amount of work hours.
Additionally, it set age limits and limited certain jobs that children could obtain. Once this Act was upheld children soon began to stop working and received their education."
"There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work"- Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), 1908
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