The Industrial Worker
A Picture is worth a 1,000 words... in any era
Through History - Image is Worth a 1000 Words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2QELumVfpc
Between 1908 and 1912, Lewis Hine photographed what he called the faces of lost youth: children of various ages, some only five years old, performing grown-up jobs. And they were not at all light jobs. We can find little boys and girls working in factories, stores, fishing boats, mines, from dawn to dusk, sometimes for over twelve hours... The photographer got to know each and everyone of them: Michael, Manuel, Camille, Pierce. He got to know everyone's story. They posed for him, sometimes with naive pride, as if they thought themselves grown-up, but with all the sadness in the world mirrored in their eyes. The images are piercing; you can't help feel disturbed looking at them.
LINK: A collection of original photographs by Lewis Hine featured in Child Labor in America 1908-1912 http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
Lewis Hine, 1908 "Glassworks. Midnight. Location: Indiana
for the National Child Labor Committee, New York.
Lewis Hine, 1920. Power house mechanic working on steam pump.
Lewis Hine, 1912 Breaker Boys in a Coal Mine
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/10-year-old-works-alongside-father-in-weapons-factory-1378728823-slideshow/
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