My English Language Learners have been exploring the Industrial Revolution. As part of this unit, they learned about the role of Lewis Hine's photojournalism in educating the public about some of the horrors of child labor in textile mills and mines in the United States during the early 1900s.
This story resonates with my students in particular because they are largely the children of immigrants and are often immigrants themselves.
In the time that Lewis Hine was taking his unforgettable photos of children as young as 5 or 6 working in appalling conditions, there were already some regulations on the books against child labor in dangerous conditions, but they were not applied to the children of immigrants.
The book Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor is an engaging and enlightening read. My students will be able to use this class set of the book to build reading and vocabulary skills as they learn how the Industrial Revolution resulted in changes that still impact our world today.
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