30 Shocking Photos Of Child Labor Between 1908 And 1916

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/30-shocking-photos-of-child-labor-between-1908-and-1916

The impact of these images, by photographer Lewis Hine, were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the U.S.

[Scuba]

1. Republican Paradise.

[hollysmom]

2. Well, that would be good to send to Newt Gingrich

who seems to have a romantic notion of children janitors.

[Dawson Leery]

3. This is what Rand Paul and Paul Ryan's dreams look like.

[rurallib]

4. This would make old Newtie weep with joy.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. The comments there are something else...

[Notafraidtoo]

6. Omg the comments..

Six year olds working in coal mines getting black lung is the good ole days to teabaggers.. I wish we could force them to live in the hell they say they support because they have no ability to reason the misery they wish upon others.

[limpyhobbler]

7. These are stunning. We still have child workers too.

http://afop.org/children-in-the-fields/

Today in America, as many as 500,000 children work as hired labor in our fields and orchards. They are among the least protected of all working children.

Since 1997, AFOP’s Children in the Fields Campaign has been dedicated to ensuring that farmworker children are protected and given an opportunity to succeed in life. By educating the public, advocating for educational programs for farmworker children, and supporting fair living wages for all farmworkers, the Children in the Fields Campaign strives to get farmworker children out of the fields and back into schools.