Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont and Massachusetts to G
"The author conveys a convincing and insightful sense of the extraordinary value of Hine's legacy. . . . Nemerov combines accurate, minute descriptions with passionate technical analyses, shedding new, meaningful light on Hine's work as an organic, unitary project of historical significance."---Adriana Neagu, ABC Journal