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Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor
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Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor Paperback - 2011

by Michael Burgan

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Little boys, some as young as 6, spent their long days, not playing or studying, but sorting coal in dusty, loud, and dangerous conditions. Many of these breaker boys worked 10 hours a day, six days a week all for as little as 45 cents a day. Child labor was common in the United States in the 19th century. It took the compelling, heart breaking photographs of Lewis Hine and others to bring the harsh working conditions to light. Hine and his fellow Progressives wanted to end child labor. He knew photography would reveal the truth and teach and change the world. With his camera Hine showed people what life was like for immigrants, the poor, and the children working in mines, factories, and mills. In the words of an historian, the more than 7,000 photos Hine took of American children at work aroused public sentiment against child labor in a way that no printed page or public lecture could.

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  • Title Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor
  • Author Michael Burgan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Compass Point Books
  • Publication date 2011-06-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780756545109 / 0756545102
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 8.9 x 0.2 in (25.40 x 22.61 x 0.51 cm)
  • Age range 10 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 7
  • Reading level 1020
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Child labor - United States - History, Hine, Lewis Wickes
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011003316
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.310

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2011, Page 58
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2012, Page 125

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