2023年4月10日 · These 44 newsies photos capture a slice of their lives between the 19th and 20th centuries, when a young child with ambition and a loud voice could scrape together a meager wage by selling papers on the street.

2021年8月16日 · With newsies selling papers to a majority of New York’s population, it showed people the large percentage of young urban poor and spread awareness of child labor. Newsies were a recognized group of workers important to the newspaper industry. This is clearly demonstrated by the 1899 New York strike.

They worked not only in industrial settings but also in retail stores, on the streets, on farms, and in home-based industries. This article discusses the use of child labor in the United States, concentrating on the period after the Civil War through the …

Newspaper newsies were a recognized group of workers who played an essential role in the newspaper industry. An example of this is the 1899 strike in New York. Two of New York’s most distinguished publishers, Joseph Pulitzer and Randolph Hearst, hiked the newspaper prices.

In the early 20th century, a national reform movement took aim at child labor in the United States, igniting debates over the rights and responsibilities that parents, government institutions, and the community as a whole had to the nation’s children.

2016年4月6日 · From 1908 to 1924, Hine traveled around the nation, meeting seven-year-old oyster shuckers, 10-year-old cotton mill spinners, and six-year-old newspaper boys.

2017年11月3日 · Lewis Hine, a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, captured photos of some of the children who made up the US labor force between 1908 and 1924.

2018年4月26日 · Below, take a look at the shocking Lewis Hine photographs that helped America finally take action to crack down on child labor, now a part of the U.S. National Archives collection: A young...

Just over a century ago, several thousand child laborers captured the nation’s attention when they took on two of the nation’s biggest newspaper publishers. Their struggle exposed the exploitation of children and inspired workers, both young and old, to …

2017年4月3日 · Addams spent a lifetime lobbying for child labor laws, and her hard-hitting articles and widely attended speeches raised public awareness about the difficulties of life for poor children, particularly those of Chicago’s immigrant families.