GARGLEBLASTER Loc: Spain

Leicaflex Loc: Cymru

Very interesting.
Thank you for the link.

lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

Same here.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

GARGLEBLASTER??? Did you like these... like most UHH people, few words are wasted when they should be there....
I have seen photos descriptively captioned... yesterday... what yesterday.
We were taught in school ... who what when and where

So before I render a comment ... I would ask... What did you think about these photos? Why in your opinion did they change America?

Two people commenting "very interesting" .... why did they find them interesting???

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Very interesting. And very sad. Thank you. I've seen many of those photos many times before. Put into context they are even ore powerful.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Actually there were several photographers and writers who pointed out the evils of child labor and the conditions of the poor and immigrants in general as part of the overall problems in society/industry. Those in the UK (Dickens anyone?) and those in the US often knew each other and passed ideas/causes back and forth. The nickname "Muckrakers" was first applied to the writers but many today apply the name to a mixed group of writers, photographers, artists, reporters etc.

And here in the US those work place evils were less prevalent in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. There was a labor shortage and many (esp girls and women) were recruited from farm and small town families in New England and then treated like a large extended family (look up the "Lowell Girls" and later the "Harvey Girls"). Then the waves of immigrants started coming and that labor shortage went away, but conditions didn't start to get much worse early on because the immigrants had the frontier to go to so wages and conditions stayed good for a few decades. (I read that pay was on average 3X or more what was paid in the UK at the time. And for skilled workers even better.) Then the frontier became more distant and the available "free"* land was disappearing at the same time the immigration became heavier. So many industries took advantage and conditions started to get bad. But there were always companies that maintained that old "extended family" way of doing things. They became lost in the flood of information about the bad.
And yes prejudice entered into it, most of the workers in the worst industries were immigrants of different ethnic groups and/or religions than the early immigrants. An example would be the early Protestant Irish (Scotch Irish-Lace Current Irish) and the later Catholic (Shanty Irish) who came over with the Potato Famines. During most of the famine times Ireland had enough food, just not the cheapest food of the poor-potatoes. The wheat and other more expensive foods were exported to England and the Empire.
My own Grandfather came over towards the end of the worst times around the turn of the century. Age 11**, a waterboy in the coal mines of Central Pennsylvania and a miner by age 14. He was a "Hunky" from the old Austro-Hungarian Empire with his uncles who had contracts from mining company recruiters that had a shortage of qualified deep shaft miners. So things never were the absolute worst for him. And then the Miner's Union came along. Grandpa Charney would have voted John L. Lewis for President even if his running mate was Attila the Hun.

* It wasn't free, but cheap and after the Homestead Law even cheaper to obtain.
** There were no school teachers who spoke their language, not even the Catholic schools and his uncles refused to let an 11 year old wonder free on the streets while they worked. So they took him to the mine and he started work riding up and down on the elevators with a cart and containers of clean drinking water that he took into the shafts to the working crews. He was big and strong for his age and by 14 he was a regular miner at much higher pay. Over 50 years in the mines before he retired. In his 80s he had biceps like most men's thighs. If Grandma wanted a piece of furniture moved he just picked it up and asked "Ver you vant?" Working with miners who spoke his language he kept a strong accent until he died, Grandma being out and about, shopping, friends who spoke English and dealing with teachers at the schools (8 kids lived to be adults) lost her accent all together.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

I remember these Child Labor Incidents in America, mentioned a long time ago by my High School History Teacher. And that a Law was passed in 1916, as mentioned in the video. Unfortunately, this has not ceased internationally. It still exists in poorer Asian and African countries. Some paying as low as $3 per 10 hours daily.

Edia Loc: Central New Jersey

This is a case of a picture being worth 1,000 words. Even today these photos create emotional effects and powerful responses. Wow. I am speechless.