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Item Nr: B 114658 Title: Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Burgan, Michael
Length: 64 Prod/Pub: Compass Point Books
Copyright: 2012 Series: CAPTURED HISTORY
Book Type: N Biographee: Hine, Lewis Wickes
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Explores the extent of child labor in the United States in the nineteenth century and reveals how the photography of Lewis Hine and others helped illuminate children's sordid working conditions and bring about the establishment of child labor laws. From the series Captured History. AR 7.1. RC 8.6. Lexile 1020. IL 5-10.

  Subjects:
  58 - AMERICA--HISTORY/AMERICAN
  282 - CHILD WELFARE
  326 - COAL MINES AND MINING
  667 - LABOR AND LABORING CLASSES
  1680 - LEXILE 1000-1099
  855 - PHOTOGRAPHY
  885 - POVERTY
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  1005 - SOCIAL PROBLEMS
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES
  1108 - U.S.--HISTORY
  1136 - U.S.--SOCIAL CONDITIONS