September 1, 1916

Dist Columbia, District of Columbia

Progressive Reformers, Lewis Hine, Keating-Owen Act, Child Labor

Congress drafted the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 as a means to regulate youth labor.  This Act was named for its sponsors, Democratic Representatives Edward Keating and Robert Latham Owen.  The Act prohibited the shipment or delivery for shipment for interstate or foreign sale of any goods or services that were produced by laborers under the age of 14 in a factory, shop or cannery and under...

1910

New York, New York

Child Labor, Urban-Life/Boosterism

The image of a mother, father, and their three young children huddled around a small table in a dimly lit, overcrowded tenement tediously sewing garments into the early hours of the morning is not unique to the photographs captured by Lewis Hine. Hine's work often demonstrated the dignity of the worker, but reflected the purposes of those who hired him. Hines was surrounded by and influenced by the...