ot;breaker boys" at coal mines, it can be seen
that their eyes are dull, and their faces are grim, and they look dirty from the work they
have been doing. If it is an evil for adults to suffer such conditions in the workplace, it is
twice as deplorable when young, prepubescent children are employed into those jobs.
The photographer Lewis W. Hine, seen as one of the fathers of documentary photography,
captured the misery and suffering of America's child laborers, thereby helping to put an
end to the practice. (Kennedy, The American Pageant)
Because of the advancements in technology wrought by the Industrial Revolution,
workers were able to produce more in the same amount of time. Yet the workers
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