As Congress looks to pass a slate of funding bills before the Nov. 17 government funding deadline, the Department of Labor is calling on Congress to meet a funding request of $50 million each for ...

Library of Congress, National Child Labor Committee Collection The "Manly art of self-defense" Newsboys' Protective Association, in Cincinnati, Ohio, taken around 1910. Lewis Hine/Library of Congress ...

Today, the Library of Congress maintains a collection of more than 5,000 of Hine’s photographs, including the thousands he took for the National Child Labor Committee, known as the NCLC.

Library of Congress National Child Labor Committee collection. Images like this 1909 photo by Lewis Hines of the National Child Labor Committee, showing even young children working in a Maryland ...

Weeks after revelations that migrant children are being regularly exploited for cheap labor in the United States prompted bipartisan outrage and calls to action on Capitol Hill, Congress has moved ...

They were among 5,000 photographs Hine took for the federal government and which are held by the Library of Congress. ... Fall River and vicinity, where child labor is exploited heavily, ...

Notably, the National Child Labor Committee’s efforts resulted in Congress establishing the Children’s Bureau in 1912 and passing the Keating-Owen Act in 1916, which limited working hours for ...