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A young spinner in Yazoo City

boy at Turkey Knob Mine

Children hauling coal up the slope of an English mine; from an engraving of the 1840s.

Two young boys work barefoot at large textile machines inside a factory, illustrating child labor in the United States during the early twentieth century.

See illustrator Joel Millerchip commissioned by Parliament to commemorate the Factory Act of 1833 with a banner, speaking of an event leading to its passage

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Topics

Social issue childhood labour serfdom forced labour statute labour peonage slavery

Key People

Abbott, Grace

Grace Abbott

American social worker

Florence Kelley.

Florence Kelley

American social reformer

Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge

American social reformer

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Helen Marot

American author, librarian, and labor organizer

Textile mill worker

Lewis Hine

American photographer