AdvertisementHeart-breaking images show children as young as four toiling away in squalid and dangerous conditions for just 90 cents a week more than 100 years ago. Grim photos show children, practically all of them pre-teen, working their fingers to the bone in mines, picking fruit and delivering newspaper. These distressing images captured by photographer, Lewis Hine between 1908 and 1911. In 1910 children under the age of 15 made up 18.4 per cent of the nation’s workforce. In the early 20th century it was common for children, some as young as four, to work in America’s factories, mines, fields, canneries, and tenement sweatshops

Source: Daily Mail January 17, 2020 12:18 UTC