Radical transformations in photography are one primary reason the threatened rollbacks have gotten traction. In the first decade of the 20th century, sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940 ...

Photographs courtesy of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, in Rochester, NY. George Eastman House holds the Lewis Hine archive. Produced for the BBC by Tracy ...

In the early 1900s, Lewis Hine left his job as ... As a sociologist, Hine was an early believer in the power of photography to document work conditions and help bring about change.

As a photographic chronicler of New York City not to mention America at large Lewis Hine falls somewhere between ... and other child workers but his photos of the Empire State Building's ...

Lewis Hine died in poverty but his photos live on as a reminder of the horrors of child labor and, frankly, the dangers to all workers found in Industrial Age workplaces. These are just a few of his ...