I recently did a school report on a man named Lewis Hine. He was a photographer from the late 1800's- to the early 1900's. His more memorable photo's were of the Empire State Building during construction, but the most meaningful one's, are of child labor. After college he became very interested and disgusted in child labor and he felt that someone needed to end it. So, he would travel all around the country to coal mines, glass blowing workshops, the streets of NYC, textile mills and cotton fields risking his own life so others would be better. As you can imagine the bosses of these factories, or mills, etc. didn't want citizens of America to know about the terrible working conditions, so he wasn't allowed to take the photos. But, he always found a way in. One time he even posed as a fire inspector, so he could be let in. The more common ways were going before the bosses would get (early AM) or he would enter during the bosses lunch break.
What did I like about it?
I can't say that i "liked" anything really about it, just because what he photographed was horrible. The kids worked 13 hour shifts 6 days a week! But I was very interested in everything. And it really showed (and scared) me what I and every other kid in America would have to go through if he didn't take the challenge of documenting this.
What I didn't like:
I didn't likehow horrible the bosses were. IN coal mines they wouldn't let the miners (or breaker boys) to wear gloves because they said it was "easier to tell the differnece between coal and slate." And how dumb, gullible and stupid the bosses were to let this happen to their next generation of kids.
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