Life for Industrial Workers

Examine the slides. Write down challenges it appears industrial workers and their families

might have experienced during this time. Inferences are okay.

• All of these pictures were taken between 1880 and 1915 in the United States.

• Any picture with a caption was taken by Lewis Hines. He wrote these captions based on interviews he had with the subjects of his pictures.

• Lewis Hines was a photojournalist. He used his camera to document life in America for members of the working class during the industrial revolution. His images were influential in encouraging Congress to make reforms in the later years of the industrial revolution.

Oyster shuckers at work in Barataria Canning Company. Small girls working on right of photo are Gertrude Kron, five years old, Pauline ---, eight years old. Note the face of little Mildred Kron, near center of photo, three

years old, works every day, mother said. Also small boy on left of photo who has dropped an oyster. See also phtos 1973, 1977, 1997, 1976. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi. Date Created/Published: 1911 February. LOC

original medium: 1 photographic print. Child labor pics by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Lunch-time. A few of the workers on night shift in Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey. Date Created/Published:

1909 November. LOC original medium: 1 photographic print. Child labour pics by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Louis Birch, 4th & Pine Sts. Newsboy, 12 years of age. Just started selling. Made 10 cents one day. Father dead. While not under any compulsion to sell papers, Louis, of his own accord, took it up in order to help support his widowed mother. Louis is a brother of Stanley Birch, whose full history is contained in the text of the general report. Louis stays out until 12:30 every night and goes with his brother, Stanley, who is a messenger, on all calls because Stanley is afraid to be out on the street alone at night. Louis is clean, bright and willing. Visits saloons. Don't smoke. Works 9 hours per day. Gives money to mother. , May 1910. Investigator, Edward F.

Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware. Date Created/Published: 1910 May. LOC original medium: 1 photographic print. Picture of child labour by Lewis Wickes Hine.

A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recess of the boy's lungs. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania. Date Created/Published: 1911 January. LOC original medium: 1 photographic print. Picture of

child labor by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Golden Flats, Tenement Housing

Charlie Foster has a steady job in the Merrimack Mills. Factory Record says he is now ten years old. His father told me that he could not read, and still he is putting him into the mill. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville,

Alabama. Date Created/Published: 1913 December. LOC original medium: 1 photographic print. Child labor pic by Lewis Wickes Hine.